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Checking and Casting Data Types

Explore how to check data types in Python and PowerShell using their built-in methods. Understand type casting and conversion between common data types, and compare how each language handles these operations effectively.

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Checking the Data Type

Every Powershell object automatically has an in-built method, GetType(), which can be accessed using the (.) dot operator, as demonstrated in the following example to check data types.

Python 3.5
## to check the data type in powershell
## provides an inbuilt method GetType()
'this is a string'.GetType()
(1298).GetType()
([char]'s').GetType()
(0.0099999).GetType()

Similarly, in Python, we can use the type() inbuilt method to test/check the data type.

Python 3.5
## checking data type using type() built-in function
str = 'a string'
print(type(str))  # output: <class 'str'>
pos_num = 10
print(type(pos_num)) # output: <class 'int'>
neg_num = -13
print(type(neg_num)) # output: <class 'int'>
pi=3.14159
print(type(pi))  # output: <class 'float'>

Data type casting

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