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Built-In Data Structures Part 1: Lists and Sets
Python has a rich collection of built-in data structures. These data structures are sometimes called "containers" or "collections" because they contain a collection of individual items. These structures cover a wide variety of common programming situations.
We'll look at an overview of the various collections that are built-in and what problems they solve. After the overview, we will look at the list and set collections in detail in this chapter, and then dictionaries in Chapter 5, Built-In Data Structures Part 2: Dictionaries.
The built-in tuple and string types have been treated separately. These are sequences, making them similar in many ways to the list collection. In Chapter 1, Numbers, ...
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