Python's Collection Module: Introduction

Introduction

This module implements specialized container datatypes providing alternatives to Pythons general purpose built-in containers, dict, list, set, and tuple.

What types does it offer?

Following are the most commonly used special container types of collections module,

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We can also implement a custom container type like OrderedCounter using the container types provided by collections module.

The next series of posts will dive deep into the above mentioned container types provided by collections module.

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