In this chapter we'll look at the following recipes:
- Choosing a data structure
- Building lists – literals, appending, and comprehensions
- Slicing and dicing a list
- Deleting from a list – deleting, removing, popping, and filtering
- Reversing a copy of a list
- Using set methods and operators
- Removing items from a set – remove(), pop(), and difference
- Creating dictionaries – inserting and updating
- Removing from dictionaries – the pop() method and the del statement
- Controlling the order of dict keys
- Handling dictionaries and sets in doctest examples
- Understanding variables, references, and assignment
- Making shallow and deep copies of objects
- Avoiding mutable default values for function parameters
