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Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja
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Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja

by Cody Jackson
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
380 pages
9h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using Python Collections

In this chapter, we will look at Python collection objects, which take the regular, built-in Python containers (list, tuple, dictionary, and set being the most common) and add special functionality for particular situations. We will cover:

  • Reviewing containers
  • Implementing namedtuple
  • Implementing deque
  • Implementing ChainMap
  • Implementing Counters
  • Implementing OrderedDict
  • Implementing defaultdict
  • Implementing UserDict
  • Implementing UserList
  • Implementing UserString
  • Improving Python collections
  • Looking at the collections – extended module
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