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Beginner 7: What type is it?

Scenario

You are a data analyst in the Retail team. type() tells you if something is a number or text.

Question

Write your code in the editor, press Check my answer, then try changing one small thing.

Your task

Write your code in the editor
Press Check my answer
Look at the result on the right

type()

Read the simple theory: print

Beginner · Strings & Indexing — question 7 of 30

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1. Choose your dataset

Pick an industry and a size. Your code and results change to match.

IndustrySize

📓 DataPro notebookpy-basic-065.ipynbFileEditViewRunKernel: Python 3

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Beginner 7: What type is it?

Write your code in the editor, press Check my answer, then try changing one small thing.

In [1]:

Your code cell is below. Press Check my answer to run the cell — the result appears as Out [1].

python editorsales

Snippets

💡 Explain my whole code, line by line (hover any word in the editor for a tip)

🌈 In short — no coding words

📂 Opens the "sales" table→✅ Shows you the answer

Altogether: this script runs top to bottom, one line at a time, building up the answer step by step.

Start typing to see suggestions. Press Enter to use one. Red marks show the line to fix. Drag a bottom corner horizontally and vertically to resize.

Type your code here ↓Tap or click inside the box to start

✍️ Tap here to type

Dataset & schema

sales

IndustryDataset size

The tiny starter data. Bigger data scrolls.

Fields

sale_id	store	items
S1	Mall	6
S2	Town	2
S3	Mall	9
S4	Online	4

Retail data only.

attempts: 0

▶ Output terminal

$ Press “Check my answer” — results appear here.

Your next steps

Each item turns green when your answer includes it.

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Uses type()

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