Python — and things like Micropython — have the same kind of division. Python started as a scripting language, but it has added object features, allowing a rich set of tools for scripters to use.

Function objects can be stored in a dictionary as values. This lets us use dictionaries to execute one of a choice of functions based on some key—a common way to emulate the switch/case ...

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 ...