### 8. Data Types The modules described in this chapter provide a variety of specialized data types such as dates and times, fixed-type arrays, heap queues, synchronized queues, and sets. Python also provides some built-in data types, in particular, [dict](# "dict"), [list](# "list"), [set](# "set") (which along with [frozenset](# "frozenset"), replaces the deprecated [sets](# "sets: Implementation of sets of unique elements. (deprecated)") module), and [tuple](# "tuple"). The [str](# "str") class can be used to handle binary data and 8-bit text, and the [unicode](# "unicode") class to handle Unicode text.