Daniel Arbuckle's Mastering Python

Different types of packages

The index page contains a list of the different packages available to you in Python's standard library. Let's briefly run through them in order.

First of all, there is the Collections package, which contains even more data structures: https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html.

The Collections package contains the defaultdict class that we spoke about in the previous section. The Collections package also contains an OrderedDict parameter that remembers the order in which the items were inserted and gives them back in the same order when we iterate over it. A deque class is a variation on tuples that uses names to access the element and a PseudoDict parameter that provides a composite view of several other ...