Chapter 1. Numbers, Strings, and Tuples

We'll cover these recipes to introduce basic Python data types:

• Creating meaningful names and using variables

• Working with large and small integers

• Choosing between float, decimal, and fraction

• Choosing between true division and floor division

• Rewriting an immutable string

• String parsing with regular expressions

• Building complex strings with "template".format()

• Building complex strings from lists of characters

• Using the Unicode characters that aren't on our keyboards

• Encoding strings – creating ASCII and UTF-8 bytes

• Decoding bytes – how to get proper characters from some bytes

• Using tuples of items