The modules described in this chapter provide a variety of specialized data types such as dates and times, fixed-type arrays, heap queues, synchronized queues, and sets.
Python also provides some built-in data types, in particular,
dict, list, set (which along with
frozenset, replaces the deprecated sets module), and
tuple. The str class can be used to handle binary data
and 8-bit text, and the unicode class to handle Unicode text.
The following modules are documented in this chapter:
datetime--- Basic date and time typescalendar--- General calendar-related functionscollections--- High-performance container datatypesCounterobjectsdequeobjectsdefaultdictobjectsnamedtuple()Factory Function for Tuples with Named FieldsOrderedDictobjects- Collections Abstract Base Classes
heapq--- Heap queue algorithmbisect--- Array bisection algorithmarray--- Efficient arrays of numeric valuessets--- Unordered collections of unique elementssched--- Event schedulermutex--- Mutual exclusion supportQueue--- A synchronized queue classweakref--- Weak referencesUserDict--- Class wrapper for dictionary objectsUserList--- Class wrapper for list objectsUserString--- Class wrapper for string objectstypes--- Names for built-in typesnew--- Creation of runtime internal objectscopy--- Shallow and deep copy operationspprint--- Data pretty printerrepr--- Alternaterepr()implementation