I caught a glimpse of a tome on Python wizardry for the big leagues. Didn't exactly float my boat, but a couple nuggets stuck like gum on a sidewalk:
Picking your container flavor can be a sneaky way of documentation, leaving breadcrumbs for the next poor soul, hinting whether you're cool with duplicate values or not. (But other times it's just about efficiency.)
These days, you can slap "Final" on something (at least for module variables) to tell it's not to be changed!