In Python, when defining a variable, it’s not necessary to set the data type. The type will be assigned implicitly as the same as its value.
For example:
x = 100
100 is an integer, so x’s type is int.
This is similar to JavaScript. However, JavaScript has two keywords let and var. Python has no keywords like that.
In Python, once a variable’s data type is set, it cannot be changed. This is different from JavaScript.
For example:
y = 'hello'
print(y + 3)
Save the above script to file test.py, and run it. We get:
$ python test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 2, in <module>
print(y + 3)
~~^~~
TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "int") to str
'hello' is a string, so y’s type is str, 3 is an integer. A string cannot be added to an integer, so y+3 raises an error.