Chapter 6. Python Data Structures

In our examples so far, we've already seen many of the built-in Python data structures in action. You've probably covered many of them in introductory books or tutorials. In this chapter, we'll be discussing the object-oriented features of these data structures, when they should be used instead of a regular class, and when they should not be used. In particular we'll be covering:

• Tuples

• Dictionaries

• Lists and sets

• How and why to extend built-in objects