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Python Dates and Times in Python (2014) Let's Build a Timed Quiz App The Question Classes & the Plan

Posted by jayda hendrickson
jayda hendrickson
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num1 & num2

Why did he not have to specify that those were integers??

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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there, jayda hendrickson! Python doesn't require that you first specify the data type of a variable. In fact, you can overwrite variables that were originally lists of strings with any data type of your choice, for example. I think what you're asking is how we know that it will be an int.

Later on in this course, the code that calls that method will be using the random module to produce a random integer and it is 100% guaranteed to produce an integer and nothing else :smiley: So when we call it and pass in those random numbers, we can be certain they are integers.

Hope this helps! :sparkles: