When you call a function, what actually happens is that function gets its own chunk of memory that's identical in size to the data type that it expects.

当你调用一个函数，实际上发生的是,函数得到了自己的内存块，相同的类型,是占有一样大小的内存的。

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You have to be ever so explicit as to what data type your actually passing in.

你必须很清楚,你们输入的参数是什么类型的。

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Associated with every data type in Python is a type, which identifies the kind of thing it is.

在Python中每种类型都对应着一种数据类型，类型确定了对象的种类。

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String is actually not a data type in C. It actually is something called a char star and we'll come back to this before long.

字符串在C语言里其实不是一种数据类型,而是一种称为char，*的数据类型,这个知识点我以后会讲到。

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So we talked about Mr. Bool briefly last week in this idea of true or false, but in C, you don't have a Boolean data type.

我们上周简短地谈论过Bool先生的,真假的逻辑思想，但是在C语言里，没有布尔数据类型。

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And I don't quite remember from reading or from class how big these things are, well, it turns out -- and this is sometimes useful, later on more likely than now -- but C has a size of operator that takes an argument in parenthesis and it will tell you how much space is used to store that particular data type.

我不太记得类中的这些类型,是多大的，嗯，结果是--这个在以后比现在，可能是更有用的--不过C语言中有个sizeof的操作符,其中括号里有一个参数,它会告诉我们，要存储一个类型的数据,需要占用多大空间。

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