Because we declared name as an int already, and input by default returns a string, the type checker would complain. The code would still run, however, since type hints are not used at runtime.

The string "Hello there" is created and stored in memory as a Python object. The name x is created in the local namespace and pointed at that object, which increases its reference count by 1, to 1.

Strings can be considered index-based collections of smaller strings or characters, each one referenced by its position in the string. Furthermore, Python contains the notion of "slice-notation ...