strings.</font><br />
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&gt;&gt;&gt; type('17')
&lt;type 'str'&gt;
&gt;&gt;&gt; type('3.2')
&lt;type 'str'&gt;
</font></pre><font color="black">They're strings.<br />
<br />
When you type a large integer, you might be tempted to use commas
between groups of three digits, as in <tt>1,000,000</tt>. This is not a
legal integer in Python, but it is legal:
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&gt;&gt;&gt; print 1,000,000
1 0 0
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