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What exactly are data structures?

Learn about what exactly are data structures.

As seen earlier, Python has four in-built data structures that are used to store and organise the data in an efficient way. These are Lists, Tuples, Sets, and Dictionary. But, what exactly are data structures, where did this idea come from and what did Python see it as?

Watch the video to learn what exactly a data structure is.

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