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Data structures are the basic building blocks of any programming language. Having a good grasp of data structures saves you a lot of time, and using them can make your code maintainable. Python has a number of ways to store data using data structures, and having a good understanding of when to use which data structure makes a lot of difference in terms of memory, ease of use, and the performance of the code.
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Kapil, S. (2019). Data Structures. In: Clean Python. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4878-2_2
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