The Mighty Dictionary

Presented by Brandon Craig Rhodes on PyCon US 2010 Both newcomers and experienced developers alike love Python’s built-in data types, especially dictionaries! But how do dictionaries work? What do they do better than other container types, and where, on the other hand, are their weaknesses? Using simple, vivid diagrams that show the secrets of how the dictionary is implemented, and a series of progressively interesting examples of its behavior, we will train the Python develo