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2. Working With Data

To write useful programs, you need to be able to work with data. This section introduces Python’s core data structures of tuples, lists, sets, and dictionaries and discusses common data handling idioms. The last part of this section dives a little deeper into Python’s underlying object model.

• 2.1 Datatypes and Data Structures
• 2.2 Containers
• 2.3 Formatted Output
• 2.4 Sequences
• 2.5 Collections module
• 2.6 List comprehensions
• 2.7 Object model

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