Commit acd82b99 authored by Raymond Hettinger's avatar Raymond Hettinger

Fix-up intro paragraph for collections docs.

parent f76b9209
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__name__ = '<doctest>'
This module implements high-performance container datatypes. Currently,
there are two datatypes, :class:`deque` and :class:`defaultdict`, and
one datatype factory function, :func:`namedtuple`. This module also
provides the :class:`UserDict` and :class:`UserList` classes which may
be useful when inheriting directly from :class:`dict` or
:class:`list` isn't convenient.
there are three datatypes, :class:`Counter`, :class:`deque` and
:class:`defaultdict`, and one datatype factory function, :func:`namedtuple`.
The specialized containers provided in this module provide alternatives
to Python's general purpose built-in containers, :class:`dict`,
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In addition to containers, the collections module provides some ABCs
(abstract base classes) that can be used to test whether a class
provides a particular interface, for example, is it hashable or
a mapping, and some of them can also be used as mixin classes.
provides a particular interface, for example, whether it is hashable or
a mapping.
ABCs - abstract base classes
----------------------------
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