Final considerations
That's it. Now you have seen a very good portion of the data structures that you will use in Python. I encourage you to take a dive into the Python documentation and experiment further with each and every data type we've seen in this chapter. It's worth it, believe me. Everything you'll write will be about handling data, so make sure your knowledge about it is rock solid.
Before we leap into the next chapter, I'd like to make some final considerations about different aspects that to my mind are important and not to be neglected.
Small values caching
When we discussed objects at the beginning of this chapter, we saw that when we assigned a name to an object, Python creates the object, sets its value, and then points the name to it. We can assign different names to the same value and we expect different objects to be created, like this:
>>> a = 1000000 >>> b = 1000000 >>> id(a) == id(b) False
In the preceding example, a
and b
are assigned to two...