And if this course’s approach suits you, Coursera offers more U-M courses on topics like Python data structures and using databases with Python. Microsoft’s Introduction to Python.

Finally, Python has another data structure, the set, which superficially resembles a dictionary. Think of it as a dictionary with only keys, but no values. Its syntax is also similar to a dictionary: ...

Python encompasses a relatively modest ... for example—are built directly into the language. Data structures—like lists, dictionaries (i.e., hashmaps or key-value stores), tuples (for storing ...