Chapter 3
Speeding Along with Lists and Tuples
IN THIS CHAPTER
Defining and using lists
Working with sets of information
What’s a tuple and who cares?
When tuples are ideal
How to make a tuple
Accessing a tuple’s data
Sometimes in code you work with one item of data at a time, such as a person’s name or a unit price or a username. There are also plenty of times where you work with larger sets of data, like a list of people’s names or a list of products and their prices. These sets of data are often referred to as lists or arrays in most programming languages.
Python has lots of really great ways for dealing with all kinds of data collections in easy, fast, and efficient ways. You learn about those in this chapter. As always, I encourage you to follow along hands-on in a Jupyter notebook or .py file as you read this chapter. The “doing” really helps with the “understanding” part, and ...
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