Mutable Sequence Types in Python

March 21, 2022

Mutable Sequence Types

List
Dictionary
Set

Mutable Sequence Types and Immutable Sequence Types objects are treated differently in python. Immutable objects are faster to access and are costlier to change because it needs the creation of a copy.

Whereas mutable objects are easy to change.

Theory

In Python, the data structure or we can say sequences are defined into two categories –

Mutable Sequences
Immutable Sequences

Mutable sequences can be changed after their creation while immutable sequences can’t be updated however there are some tricks to update the immutable sequences. So, due to the above characteristics, immutable sequences are read-only and mutable sequences are both read and write compatible.

Example

List

>>> companies = ['tata','wipro','accenture']
>>> companies
['tata', 'wipro', 'accenture']
>>> companies[0]='tcs'
>>> companies
['tcs', 'wipro', 'accenture']
>>> companies[-1]='cognizant'
>>> companies
['tcs', 'wipro', 'cognizant']

Dictionary

>>> dictionary1 = {'Prep':'Insta', 1:'Myname'}
>>> dictionary1
{'Prep': 'Insta', 1: 'Myname'}
>>> dictionary1['Prep']='PrepInsta'
>>> dictionary1
{'Prep': 'PrepInsta', 1: 'Myname'}
>>> dictionary1[0]='Prep'
>>>dictionary1
{'Prep': 'PrepInsta', 1: 'Myname', 0: 'Prep'}

Set

>>> set1=set(companies)
>>> set1
{'wipro', 'tcs', 'cognizant'}
>>> set1.add('accenture')
>>> set1
{'accenture', 'wipro', 'tcs', 'cognizant'}

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