From acd82b99c87d85511e5967e8836b36d950f965e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raymond Hettinger Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:06:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fix-up intro paragraph for collections docs. --- Doc/library/collections.rst | 11 ++++------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/collections.rst b/Doc/library/collections.rst index a179d0f3e0e..4b3bbe9c69f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/collections.rst +++ b/Doc/library/collections.rst @@ -14,11 +14,8 @@ __name__ = '' This module implements high-performance container datatypes. Currently, -there are two datatypes, :class:`deque` and :class:`defaultdict`, and -one datatype factory function, :func:`namedtuple`. This module also -provides the :class:`UserDict` and :class:`UserList` classes which may -be useful when inheriting directly from :class:`dict` or -:class:`list` isn't convenient. +there are three datatypes, :class:`Counter`, :class:`deque` and +:class:`defaultdict`, and one datatype factory function, :func:`namedtuple`. The specialized containers provided in this module provide alternatives to Python's general purpose built-in containers, :class:`dict`, @@ -26,8 +23,8 @@ to Python's general purpose built-in containers, :class:`dict`, In addition to containers, the collections module provides some ABCs (abstract base classes) that can be used to test whether a class -provides a particular interface, for example, is it hashable or -a mapping, and some of them can also be used as mixin classes. +provides a particular interface, for example, whether it is hashable or +a mapping. ABCs - abstract base classes ----------------------------