Collections

An overview of Python collections and their properties:

Name	Type	Mutable	Ordered	Compares Order	Hashable	Comments
list	sequence	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
tuple	sequence	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
set	set	Yes	No	-	No
frozenset	set	No	No	-	Yes
dict	mapping	Yes	Yes (>=3.7)	No	No
collections.deque	sequence	Yes	Yes		No	Fast pop and append on begin/end
collections.Counter	mapping	Yes	No	-	No	Counting hashable Objects
dataclasses.dataclass	mapping	Yes	Yes		If frozen
collections.defaultdict	mapping	Yes			No	Adds value of function for non-existing key
typing.NamedTuple	mapping	No	Yes		Depends on the content