Chapter 4. Data Structures and Algorithms
Data structures are the building blocks to solve programming problems. They provide organization for the data, and algorithms provide the logic to carve the perfect solution. Python provides many efficient built-in data structures that can be used effectively. There are other good data-structure implementations in the standard library as well as third-party libraries. Often, the more pressing question is when to use what, or what data-structure is good for the present problem description. To resolve this, we will cover the following topics:
- Python data structures
- Python library data structures
- Third-party data structures
- Algorithms on scale
