5. Data Structures — Python 3.14.3 documentation
2 days ago · Another useful data type built into Python is the dictionary (see Mapping Types — dict). Dictionaries are sometimes found in other languages as “associative memories” or “associative arrays”.
Built-in Functions — Python 3.14.3 documentation
2 days ago · The isinstance() built-in function is recommended for testing the type of an object, because it takes subclasses into account. With three arguments, return a new type object.
Data Types — Python 3.14.3 documentation
2 days ago · Python also provides some built-in data types, in particular, dict, list, set and frozenset, and tuple. The str class is used to hold Unicode strings, and the bytes and bytearray classes are used to …
The Python Standard Library — Python 3.14.3 documentation
2 days ago · The library contains built-in modules (written in C) that provide access to system functionality such as file I/O that would otherwise be inaccessible to Python programmers, as well as …
pickle — Python object serialization — Python 3.14.3 documentation
2 days ago · Recent versions of the pickle protocol (from protocol 2 and upwards) feature efficient binary encodings for several common features and built-in types. Also, the pickle module has a transparent …
queue — A synchronized queue class — Python 3.14.3 documentation
2 days ago · A typical pattern for entries is a tuple in the form: (priority_number, data). If the data elements are not comparable, the data can be wrapped in a class that ignores the data item and only …
Built-in Types — Python 3.14.3 documentation
2 days ago · The core built-in types for manipulating binary data are bytes and bytearray. They are supported by memoryview which uses the buffer protocol to access the memory of other binary …
heapq — Heap queue algorithm — Python 3.14.3 documentation
2 days ago · Various structures for implementing schedulers have been extensively studied, and heaps are good for this, as they are reasonably speedy, the speed is almost constant, and the worst case is …
collections — Container datatypes — Python 3.14.3 documentation
2 days ago · collections — Container datatypes ¶ Source code: Lib/collections/__init__.py This module implements specialized container datatypes providing alternatives to Python’s general purpose built …
inspect — Inspect live objects — Python 3.14.3 documentation
1 day ago · Return the name of the Python source file in which an object was defined or None if no way can be identified to get the source. This will fail with a TypeError if the object is a built-in module, …