Data structures in Python

Concept of a list (like an array in C),
Creating and using lists, methods for lists (accessing, searching, sorting),
Looping over lists, different ways,
Tuple = an unmutable list,
More? List comprehension, concept and examples,
More? Arrays, queues and stacks, concept and references (on the Python documentation),
Examples (with the lab), e.g. grades for MA101 (g = ['A', 'B+', 'A', .., 'D'])

Concept of a set, coming from maths,
Creating and using sets, mathematical operations (<, !=, >, <=, >=, |, &, ^),
Frozenset = an unmutable set,
Converting between lists, tuples, sets and frozensets,
More? Quick explanation of the limitation (only hashable object, see also the __hash__ method)
Examples (with the lab), e.g. set of courses at MEC.

Concepts and examples of use. A dict as a powerful way to store data,
Creating, using, updating a dictionnary (nbStudents = {'2014': 230}, d[key] = newvalue, etc),
Looping over a dict, different approaches,
Converting from and to other data types,
More? Quick explanation of the limitation (only hashable object, see also the __hash__ method)
Examples (with the lab), e.g. student list used to do the face-book for 2014-15.

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Opening a file, different modes (w, r, a b): myfile = open('here.txt', 'wr'),
Reading from a file, looping over the lines of a file (for line in myfile: ...),
Closing a file, or using the with block (with open('stuff.json', 'r') as f: ...),
Writing to a file (two modes, w or a),
Bonus: working with files and directories with distutil.file_util, distutil.dir_util.
Saving Python values and objects to a file with JSON (or Pickle),
More? Fetching files from the web: urllib and urllib2.