http://www.viveksyngh.com/tags/collections/ Recent content in Collections on Vivek Kumar Singh Hugo -- gohugo.io en Sun, 19 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.viveksyngh.com/posts/python-collections-module/ Sun, 19 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.viveksyngh.com/posts/python-collections-module/ Apart from built-in general purpose container data structures like list, dict, set and tuple . Python provides collections module which implements some specialized container data types. Following container data types are present in collections module for python 3.6. namedtuple() : factory function for creating tuple subclasses with named fields. deque : list-like container with fast appends and pops on either end. ChainMap : dict-like class for creating a single view of multiple mappings Counter: dict subclass for counting hashable objects OrderedDict : dict subclass that remembers the order entries were added defaultdict: dict subclass that calls a factory function to supply missing values.