Exercise: Data types

Create a string variable named a with the value "The New York Times"

a = "The New York Times" # you can also use single quotes

Test if 'New' is part of the string

"New" in a

True

Concatenate "is an American newspaper based in New York City" to the variable a.

• Option 1: use + operator
• Option 2: string formatting
• Option 3: f string

#option 1: 
a + "is an American newspaper based in New York City"

'The New York Timesis an American newspaper based in New York City'

#option 2
"{} is an American newspaper based in New York City".format(a)

'The New York Times is an American newspaper based in New York City'

#option 3
f"{a} is an American newspaper based in New York City"

'The New York Times is an American newspaper based in New York City'

Create a list variable, named b, containing 4, a, True and 10.5 (Note: a is the string variable you created at step 1)

b = [4, a, True, 10.5]

Print out b

print(b)

[4, 'The New York Times', True, 10.5]

Test if a is inside this list variable

a in b

True

Print the type of the variable b

print(type(b))

<class 'list'>