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.. _datatypes:

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Data Types
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The modules described in this chapter provide a variety of specialized data
types such as dates and times, fixed-type arrays, heap queues, synchronized
queues, and sets.

Python also provides some built-in data types, in particular,
:class:`dict`, :class:`list`, :class:`set` and :class:`frozenset`, and
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:class:`tuple`.  The :class:`str` class is used to hold
Unicode strings, and the :class:`bytes` class is used to hold binary data.
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The following modules are documented in this chapter:


.. toctree::

   datetime.rst
   calendar.rst
   collections.rst
   heapq.rst
   bisect.rst
   array.rst
   sched.rst
   queue.rst
   weakref.rst
   types.rst
   copy.rst
   pprint.rst
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   reprlib.rst