Using advanced data types and methods

In Beginning Python we saw different basic data types (integers, floats, booleans and strings) and a data structure called list (an ordered, mutable sequence that can contain heterogeneous elements) and how to perform basic operations with it (indexing, slicing and adding elements).

Python provides several other powerful built-in data types and methods that allow you to work with more complex data structures. In this section, we will see how to perform more advanced operations with strings and lists, and we will introduce a new data structure called dictionary. Understanding how to effectively use these data structures is crucial for writing efficient code.