Combining data types
Different types of data types have different properties. For example, strings and floats cannot be mathematically combined. To convert a variable x to an integer, you can use the command int(x). Similarly, to convert a variable y to a string, you can use the command str(y).
It's time for you to change some data types to complete and print a statement.
The variables company_1, year_1, and revenue_1 are available in your workspace.
This exercise is part of the course
Introduction to Python for Finance
Exercise instructions
- Convert the data type of variables
year_1, andrevenue_1to string. - Use these new variables to create and print the following sentence: "The revenue of Apple in 2017 was $229.23 billion."
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Update data types
year_1_str = ____(year_1)
revenue_1_str = ____
# Create a complete sentence combining only the string data types
sentence = 'The revenue of ' + company_1 + ' in ' + ____ + ' was $' + ____ + ' billion.'
# Print sentence
print(sentence)