Containers and Python Type Jargon
Explore common Python container types such as lists, tuples, sets, and dictionaries, and understand important type jargon including mutable, immutable, iterable, and ordered collections. This lesson helps you identify and work with various data structures effectively.
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Container types
Container types typically refer to multiple values stored together. Here are some examples of different basic types:
- A list is an indexed collection of similar/dissimilar entities, e.g.,
[10, 20, 30, 20, 30, 40, 50, 10],['She', 'sold', 10, 'shells']. - A tuple is an immutable collection, e.g.,
('Sanjay', 34, 4500.55),('Let Us Python', 350, 195.00). - A set is a