The collections Module for Specialized Container Types in Python

Explore specialized container datatypes like namedtuple, defaultdict, Counter, and deque.

Source Code

from collections import namedtuple, defaultdict, Counter, deque

# namedtuple for tuples with named fields
Point = namedtuple('Point', ['x', 'y'])

# defaultdict for dictionaries with default values
dd = defaultdict(int)

# Counter for counting hashable objects
cnt = Counter(['a', 'b', 'c', 'a'])

# deque for efficient appends and pops on either end
dq = deque([1, 2, 3])