If you don’t want to refer to the elements of a collection by their position number but prefer some other type of object as a key,
use a python dictionary
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e.g.,
>>> tel = {’jack’: 4098, ’sape’: 4139}
>>> tel['guido'] = 4127
>>> tel
{’sape’: 4139, ‘guido’: 4127, ‘jack’: 4098}
>>> tel['jack']
4098
>>> del tel['sape']
>>> tel['irv'] = 4127
>>> tel
{’guido’: 4127, ‘irv’: 4127, ‘jack’: [...]
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