5. Data Structures¶
This chapter describes some things you’ve learned about already in more detail, and adds some new things as well.
Lists and Tuples in Python
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Lists and tuples are arguably Python’s most versatile, useful data types. You will find them in virtually every nontrivial Python program.
Here’s what you’ll learn in this tutorial: You’ll cover the important characteristics of lists and tuples. You’ll learn how to define them and how to manipulate them. When you’re finished, you should have a good feel for when and how to use these object types in a Python program.
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