Question 2 - Long Answer Type Questions (3 Marks each) - Chapter 5 Class 11 - Getting started with python

Write a short note on literals in Python.

Answer:

Literals are data items that have a fixed value. 

Python has the following 4 literals:

1. String literals : the text enclosed in quotes  (single or double) is considered to be a string  literal.

Examples:

• “abc”
• ‘d’
• “123start”

2. Numeric literals: Numeric literals can be of type int, float or complex.

Examples:

• 10
• 3.1497
• 2+3i

3. Boolean literals: It represents one of  the two Boolean values.

Examples:

• True
• False

 4. Special literals: None is a special literal that  indicates absence of a value and is generally  used to indicate end of lists in python. It  means that there is no useful information.