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all right everybody so we are moving on to typecasting

typecasting is the process of converting a variable

from one data type to another

we have various functions to convert a value

or variable to a string

an integer a float or a boolean

let's create some variables

we will create a name variable

type in your full name

an age make up some age

a GPA for grade point average let's say minus 3.2

and a boolean of is student

are we currently a student

let's say that's true

now you actually could get the data type of a variable

or a value by using the type function

then pass in a value or variable

however when I run this there's no output

so I need a print statement

we will print what is returned by B type function

get the type of our name variable then print it

so our name variable is a string str

our age variable

is an integer and INT

GPA is a float

is student is a boolean

using these typecast functions

we can convert from one data type to another

here's how

let's start with something simple

let's convert our GPA to an integer

currently it's afloat

I will reassign GPA

use the INT function to typecast to an integer

then pass in my GPA

at the end we will print R GPA

if we typecast 3.2 to a whole integer

what would the result be

a whole integer of 3

we truncate the decimal portion

let's convert our age to a floating point number

we will reassign our variable of age

use the typecast function of float

then insert our age variable

let's print our age variable

and it should be a floating point number 25 point 0

now we'll cover strings

let's typecast our age to be a string

age equals call the typecast function of string

str passenger age variable

so the result is still going to appear the same

25 however it's a string not an integer

and to prove that

I will enclose my age variable with the type function

the type of variable age is a string

it would be the same as if we are taking this number

and enclosing it within quotes

so this would make a difference

because let's say that I add one to age

age plus equals 1

well we would get a type air

can only concatenate strings not integers to a string

however if I were to add a string of 1 to the end

we would be using string concatenation

so let's say it's my birthday and I add 1 to 25

while since we're working with strings now

the result would be 251

I am 251 years old

so strings and numbers behave differently

with numbers

we can use them within arithmetic expressions

strings not so much

we will take our name variable

and typecast it to a boolean

name equals call the typecast function of Bull

Pass in our name variable

this has an interesting result

so I'm going to print name

bullions are either true or false

if I typecast my string of text into a bullion

that gives me true

now it really doesn't matter what I write here

if I were to change my name to a single character

such as B this would still be true

if our string variable

was empty there were no characters within it

that would actually give us false

we could use this to check to see if somebody

enters in their name

or not if somebody types in their name

then we typecast it to a boolean

if somebody skips entering in their name

that would return false

we could reprompt the user to enter in their name again

art everybody so that is typecasting

it is the process of converting a variable

from one data type to another

this is especially useful with handling user input

because user input is always a string

there may be

at times where you want to convert it to an integer

a float or a boolean

and well everybody that is typecasting in Python