Onwards and upwards. I’m in the middle of Ch 4 of Automate the Boring Stuff and really enjoying it. It’s concise enough that I don’t feel like i am wasting my time on the basics, and yet there are enough differences in Python from js or go that it is necessary to know the nuances.

Immutable vs Mutable Data Types

Lists are mutable, they can have things added, removed, or changed. Strings are immutable, they are not changed, rather a new string is created each time.