Container conversions

We summarize in the following Table 3.2 the most important properties of the container types presented so far. Arrays will be treated in Chapter 4, Linear Algebra – Arrays.

Container conversions

Table 3.2 : Container Types

As you can see in the previous table, there is a difference in accessing container elements, and sets and dictionaries are not ordered.

Due to the different properties of the various container types, we frequently convert one type to another:

Container conversions

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