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Modern Python Cookbook

You're reading from   Modern Python Cookbook The latest in modern Python recipes for the busy modern programmer

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786469250
Length 692 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Numbers, Strings, and Tuples 2. Statements and Syntax FREE CHAPTER 3. Function Definitions 4. Built-in Data Structures – list, set, dict 5. User Inputs and Outputs 6. Basics of Classes and Objects 7. More Advanced Class Design 8. Input/Output, Physical Format, and Logical Layout 9. Testing 10. Web Services 11. Application Integration

Introduction

Python has a rich collection of built-in data structures. A great deal of useful programming is commonly done with these built-in structures. These collections cover a variety of common situations.

We'll look at an overview of the various structures that are available and what problems they solve. From there, we can look at lists, dictionaries, and sets in detail.

Note that we've set the built-in tuple and string aside as being different from the list structure. There are some important similarities as well as some differences. In Chapter 1, Numbers, Strings, and Tuples, we emphasized the way strings and tuples behave more like immutable numbers than mutable collections.

We'll also look at some more advanced topics related to how python handles references to objects. We'll look at some issues related to the mutability of these data structures,...

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