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Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Python - Second Edition

By : Dr. Basant Agarwal, Benjamin Baka
Book Image

Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Python - Second Edition

By: Dr. Basant Agarwal, Benjamin Baka

Overview of this book

Data structures allow you to store and organize data efficiently. They are critical to any problem, provide a complete solution, and act like reusable code. Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Python teaches you the essential Python data structures and the most common algorithms for building easy and maintainable applications. This book helps you to understand the power of linked lists, double linked lists, and circular linked lists. You will learn to create complex data structures, such as graphs, stacks, and queues. As you make your way through the chapters, you will explore the application of binary searches and binary search trees, along with learning common techniques and structures used in tasks such as preprocessing, modeling, and transforming data. In the concluding chapters, you will get to grips with organizing your code in a manageable, consistent, and extendable way. You will also study how to bubble sort, selection sort, insertion sort, and merge sort algorithms in detail. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to build components that are easy to understand, debug, and use in different applications. You will get insights into Python implementation of all the important and relevant algorithms.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Sequences

Sequences are ordered sets of objects indexed by non-negative integers. Sequences include string, list, tuple, and range objects. Lists and tuples are sequences of arbitrary objects, whereas strings are sequences of characters. However, string, tuple, and range objects are immutable, whereas, the list object is mutable. All sequence types have a number of operations in common. Note that, for the immutable types, any operation will only return a value rather than actually change the value.

For all sequences, the indexing and slicing operators apply as described in the previous chapter. The string and list data types were discussed in detail in Chapter 1, Python Objects, Types, and Expressions. Here, we present some of the important methods and operations that are common to all of the sequence types (string, list, tuple, and range objects).

All sequences have the following...