or="blue">
python
&gt;&gt;&gt; print 4
4
</font></pre><font color="black">If you are not sure what type a value has, the interpreter can tell you.
</font><pre><font size="4" color="blue">
&gt;&gt;&gt; type('Hello, World!')
&lt;type 'str'&gt;
&gt;&gt;&gt; type(17)
&lt;type 'int'&gt;
</font></pre><font color="black">Not surprisingly, strings belong to the type <tt>str</tt> and
integers belong to the type <tt>int</tt>. Less obviously, numbers
with a decimal point belong to a type called <tt>float</tt>,
because