Python — and things like Micropython — have the same kind of division. Python started as a scripting language, but it has added object features, allowing a rich set of tools for scripters to use.

And what is being manipulated isn’t your common or garden variables. What you’ve got are objects. Every data item under Python is an object with a name, an identity, a type and a value.

Python dictionaries consists of one or more keys —an object like a string or an integer. Each key is associated with a value, which can be any Python object. You use a key to obtain its related ...