What are Literals in Python and explain about different Literals?

A literal in python source code represents a fixed value for primitive data types. There are 5 types of literals in python-

1. String literals– A string literal is created by assigning some text enclosed in single or double quotes to a variable. To create multiline literals, assign the multiline text enclosed in triple quotes. Eg.name=”Tanya”.

2. A character literal– It is created by assigning a single character enclosed in double quotes. Eg. a=’t’.

3. Numeric literals include numeric values that can be either integer, floating point value, or a complex number. Eg. a=50.

4. Boolean literals– These can be 2 values- either True or False.

5. Literal Collections– These are of 4 types-
a) List collections-Eg. a=[1,2,3,’Amit’]
b) Tuple literals- Eg. a=(5,6,7,8)
c) Dictionary literals- Eg. dict={1: ’apple’, 2: ’mango, 3: ’banana`’}
d) Set literals- Eg. {“Tanya”, “Rohit”, “Mohan”}

6. Special literal- Python has 1 special literal None which is used to return a null variable.