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Welcome back.

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Remember in Python, that string is written as a star and this is a special word, actually, it's a

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built in what we call function or built in action that we can take.

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Now, let me ask you this.

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What happens if I do string?

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One hundred is clearly a number, an integer.

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But what if we run the string function on this?

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Let's find out.

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Let's do.

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Print here.

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And then run this if I click, run.

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I get a hundred, all right, but hmm, is this an int or a string?

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To find that out once again, let's wrap this up, so the answer of whatever this value is into type.

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I know this is a lot of brackets, but remember, we're evaluating this piece of code, so we're turning

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a hundred into a string or running the string action, and then we're going to check the type of this

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entire thing and then we're going to print it out.

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If I click, run.

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I see that it's a string type, so we've converted one hundred into string using this now just to confuse

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you a little bit more.

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What if we do something like.

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All right, even more brackets, what happens now?

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Can you guess?

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Well, we convert a hundred into a string, then convert it back into an integer, and then we check

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the type of it, which is a class int and then we print that.

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So remember, this was the same as me saying A equals a star one hundred and then B is going to equal

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int.

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Of a because we're evaluating this part and then I'm saying C is going to equal the type of whatever

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B is, and then finally we're printing C.

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So that piece of code was the same as doing this.

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Very, very cool.

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Now, this is the idea of type conversion.

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Again, if I were to write that down, it's called type conversion, we're converting the type of our

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data types and you can do that throughout programming and we'll talk a lot about this throughout the

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course.

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But it's the main reason we have things like SDR int.

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We have things like float and many other data types that we're going to talk about.

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I'll see in the next video by.