what is string what is stringin you created the string "helloworldand printed it in idle' interactive window using print(in this sectionyou'll get deeper look into exactly what strings are and the various ways you can create them in python the string data type strings are one of the fundamental python data types the term data type refers to what kind of data value represents strings are used to represent text note there are several other data types built into python for exampleyou'll learn about numerical data types in and boolean data types in we say that strings are fundamental data type because they can' be broken down into smaller values of different type not all data types are fundamental you'll learn about compound data typesalso known as data structuresin the string data type has special abbreviated name in pythonstr you can see this by using type()which is function used to determine the data type of given value type the following into idle' interactive windowtype("helloworld"the output indicates that the value "helloworldis an instance of the str data type that is"helloworldis string