Empty Objects

Learn about empty objects in Python.

In our examples so far, we’ve already seen many of the built-in Python data structures in action. In this chapter, we’ll discuss the object-oriented features of these data structures, when they should be used instead of a regular class, and when they should not be used. In particular, we’ll be covering the following topics:

  • Tuples and named tuples
  • Dataclasses
  • Dictionaries
  • Lists and sets
  • Three types of queues

This chapter’s case study will revisit the data model for the k ...