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 2.. _datatypes:
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 5Data Types
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 8The modules described in this chapter provide a variety of specialized data
 9types such as dates and times, fixed-type arrays, heap queues, synchronized
10queues, and sets.
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12Python also provides some built-in data types, in particular,
13:class:`dict`, :class:`list`, :class:`set` (which along with
14:class:`frozenset`, replaces the deprecated :mod:`sets` module), and
15:class:`tuple`. The :class:`str` class can be used to handle binary data
16and 8-bit text, and the :class:`unicode` class to handle Unicode text.
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18The following modules are documented in this chapter:
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21.. toctree::
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23   datetime.rst
24   calendar.rst
25   collections.rst
26   heapq.rst
27   bisect.rst
28   array.rst
29   sets.rst
30   sched.rst
31   mutex.rst
32   queue.rst
33   weakref.rst
34   userdict.rst
35   types.rst
36   new.rst
37   copy.rst
38   pprint.rst
39   repr.rst