You get the picture! This is not optimal. Instead, we would add all of our strings to a long list. Think of this like a filing cabinet that contains our strings. We do this in Python like so: ...

The Python array is designed to emulate the behavior of an array in C, and it’s meant chiefly to allow Python to work with C arrays. The array type is useful in those cases, but in almost every ...

In Python, the mere act of making a function call incurs a relatively large amount of overhead. If some function is called repeatedly in a tight loop, even if it isn’t a long-running function ...