What is/are the Python equivalent(s) to the Java Collections Framework?

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The Java Collections Framework is like the C++ Standard Template Library: "a unified architecture for representing and manipulating collections (objects that group multiple elements into a single unit)." http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/collections/intro/index.html

Accepted Answer

Other than the built-ins you might what to check out collections.

```
>>> import collections
>>> dir(collections)
['Callable', 'Container', 'Hashable', 'ItemsView', 'Iterable', 'Iterator', 'KeysView', 'Mapping', 'MappingView', 'MutableMapping', 'MutableSequence', 'MutableSet', 'Sequence', 'Set', 'Sized', 'ValuesView', '__all__', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__package__', '_abcoll', '_iskeyword', '_itemgetter', '_sys', 'defaultdict', 'deque', 'namedtuple']
>>>
```

What is/are the Python equivalent(s) to the Java Collections Framework?

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