Python Variables

Variables are used to store data (like string, integer or complex data) in memory. You can change or access this memory location in a program by its reference (variable name). In Python, a variable is created when you assign a value to it.

# Variable Creation
pi = 3.14
number = 5
Name = "John"

foo = 5             # foo is an integer type variable
foo = "John"        # now, foo is a string type variable

                    # you can assign different data types
                    # to the same variable, because
                    # Python is a dynamically-typed language.

Concatenating with + Operator

You can use + operator to concatenate two string variables. However you cannot concatenate a string and an integer value, it will raise a TypeError. Since Python does not convert an integer to string implicitly, you need to use the built-in str() function to convert an integer to string value.

hello = "Hello "
number = 5
print(hello + number)

hello = "Hello "
number = 5
print(hello + str(number))

Variable Naming

You need to follow a few rules to name your variable:

• A variable name should start with a letter or an underscore (_) character.
• A variable name can contain any alphabetic (A-Z a-z), numeric (0-9) or underscore (_) character but the first character cannot be numeric.
• Variable names are case sensitive (MyVar, myvar, myVar all refer to different variable).