April 2019
Intermediate to advanced
646 pages
16h 48m
English
Content preview from Expert Python Programming - Third Edition
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Containers
Python provides a good selection of built-in data containers that allow you to efficiently solve many problems if you choose them wisely. Types that you should already know of are those that have dedicated literals:
- Lists
- Tuples
- Dictionaries
- Sets
Python is, of course, not limited to these four containers, and it extends the list of possible choices through its standard library. In many cases, solutions to some problems may be as simple as making a good choice for the data structure to hold your data. This part of the book aims to ease such decisions by providing deeper insight of the possible options.