Python presents native data structures, such as lists and dictionaries, which you should use to the best of your ability. Lists, for example, can store sequentially heterogeneous objects (for instance, you can save numbers, texts, images, and sounds in the same list). On the other hand, because being based on a lookup table (a hash table), dictionaries can recall content. The content can be any Python object, and often it is a list of another dictionary. Thus, dictionaries allow you to access complex, multidimensional data structures.
Anyway, lists and dictionaries have their own limitations, such as the following:
- There's the problem with memory and speed. They are not really optimized for using nearly contiguous ...
