AI engineering glossary · Python advanced
What is collections module?
collections module: A standard library module offering specialised containers, including Counter, defaultdict, deque, namedtuple and OrderedDict. They cover common needs, like counting items or fast queue operations, better than general lists and dictionaries.
collections module: an example
Counter('banana') returns counts a:3, n:2, b:1 in one call.
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Where you learn it
collections module is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.