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For me, in a coding test, basic data structures are (using Python terms for brevity):

- lists

- dictionaries

- sets

- nested versions of the above

- strings (not exactly a data structure)

strings are tenuously in my data structures list because I let people treat them as ascii arrays to avoid most of the string footguns.





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