Python Challenges: 100 Proven Programming Tasks Designed to Prepare You for Anything

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M. IndenPython Challengeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7398-2_6

6. Arrays

Michael Inden¹  

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Zurich, Switzerland

 

Arrays are data structures that store values of the same data type in a contiguous memory area. Thus, arrays are more memory-optimal and perform better than lists but are not supported natively in Python. However, they are supported by the array and numpy modules. In the following, you will look at the processing of data with the help of additional modules and deepen it with the help of exercises.

6.1 Introduction

While arrays are basic building blocks in many other programming languages, they exist in Python only as extensions, such as in the ...