Summary
We've covered several built-in data structures and attempted to understand how to choose one for specific applications. Sometimes the best thing we can do is create a new class of objects, but often, one of the built-ins provides exactly what we need. When it doesn't, we can always use inheritance or composition to adapt them to our needs. In particular, we covered:
Tuples and named tuples
Dictionaries and default dictionaries
Lists and sets
Overriding special variables on built-ins
In the next chapter we'll discuss how to integrate the object-oriented and not-so-object-oriented aspects of Python. Along the way, we'll discover that it's more object-oriented than it looks at first sight!
