[Tutor] Enumerate vs DictReader object manipulation:

[Ben Finney]

Alex Kleider <akleider at sonic.net> writes:

> How does a dict fit into this scheme?
> Is it a sequence?

No, a dict is not a sequence. But it is a container: all its items
remain available and can be retrieved again and again, and you can
interrogate whether a value is one of the items in that container.

An instance of the built-in ‘set’ type is also a container and not a
sequence.

Containers are iterable too.

> It is an iterable (in that for key in d: works although not in a
> predictable manner and for this reason I tend NOT to think of it as a
> sequence.)

That's right, IMO.

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Ben Finney