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Re: Please provide a better explanation of tuples and dictionaries

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On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Daniel W. Rouse Jr.
<dwrousejr@nethere.comnospam> wrote:
> I am currently using "Learning Python" by Mark Lutz and David Ascher,
> published by O'Reilly (ISBN 1-56592-464-9)--but I find the explanations
> insufficient and the number of examples to be sparse. I do understand some
> ANSI C programming in addition to Python (and the book often wanders off
> into a comparison of C and Python in its numerous footnotes), but I need a
> better real-world example of how tuples and dictionaries are being used in
> actual Python code.

Have you checked out the online documentation at
http://docs.python.org/ ? That might have what you're looking for.

By the way, you may want to consider learning and using Python 3.3
instead of the older branch 2.7; new features are only being added to
the 3.x branch now, with 2.7 getting bugfixes and such for a couple of
years, but ultimately it's not going anywhere. Obviously if you're
supporting existing code, you'll need to learn the language that it
was written in, but if this is all new code, go with the recent
version.

ChrisA

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Please provide a better explanation of tuples and dictionaries "Daniel W. Rouse Jr." <dwrousejr@nethere.comNOSPAM> - 2013-01-29 18:55 -0800
  Re: Please provide a better explanation of tuples and dictionaries Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-01-30 14:11 +1100
    Re: Please provide a better explanation of tuples and dictionaries "Daniel W. Rouse Jr." <dwrousejr@nethere.comNOSPAM> - 2013-01-29 19:42 -0800
      Re: Please provide a better explanation of tuples and dictionaries Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-01-30 14:51 +1100
  Re: Please provide a better explanation of tuples and dictionaries Mitya Sirenef <msirenef@lightbird.net> - 2013-01-29 22:51 -0500
  Re: Please provide a better explanation of tuples and dictionaries John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2013-01-30 05:15 +0000
    Re: Please provide a better explanation of tuples and dictionaries "Daniel W. Rouse Jr." <dwrousejr@nethere.comNOSPAM> - 2013-01-29 22:14 -0800
      Re: Please provide a better explanation of tuples and dictionaries Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-01-30 17:25 +1100
      Re: Please provide a better explanation of tuples and dictionaries Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-01-30 07:12 +0000
  Re: Please provide a better explanation of tuples and dictionaries rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-01-30 00:14 -0800
  Re: Please provide a better explanation of tuples and dictionaries Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-02-02 21:20 -0800
    Re: Please provide a better explanation of tuples and dictionaries Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-02-03 00:14 -0700
    Re: Please provide a better explanation of tuples and dictionaries Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-02-03 18:21 +1100

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