Beginning Python Programming — Part 2

Reference types, pointers, and collection types

Bob Roebling
Better Programming
Published in
9 min readMay 19, 2019

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In part one of our series on Python, we introduced variables, constants, and types. Today, we will be covering reference types, pointers, and collection types!

In other programming languages, you have this idea of value types. In Python, this concept doesn’t exist. Instead, we just have…

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Bob is a Senior Infrastructure Administrator and tech evangelist with a background in multiple programming languages.