Python Data Structures
Sujith Samuel Mathew, Mohammad Amin Kuhail, Maha Hadid, Shahbano Farooq · 2025
Data structures are organized containers for storing and managing data effectively and efficiently. They are fundamental building blocks in software development, facilitating tasks such as sorting, searching, and organizing data, thus allowing for easy retrieval, insertion, and manipulation of information within a computer program. Python offers a range of data structures that include linear structures like lists and non-linear ones like trees and graphs. Storing a variety of data is possible with these structures, from simple lists of numbers like average temperatures in a city to complex data like networks of railway stations. This chapter covers Python’s essential data structures, from lists, tuples, sets, and dictionaries. It will explore each data structure’s intricacies and discuss their real-world applications.