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A basic data type for which all other data types are constructed. It often refers to the limited set of data representations in use by a particular CPU.
Data types constructed by primitive data types are called non-primitive data types.
Common primitive data types
- integers (with varying sizes in bytes, i.e. 1, 2, 4, 8)
- booleans
- floating-point numbers
Primitive data types within python
- integers
- string
- float
- boolean