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Generally, no. You are expected to use only the standard built-in libraries provided natively by the programming language.
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The equivalent of C++ std::vector in Java is the ArrayList class.
In Python, a Hash Map is simply a dictionary (dict). You create one using curly braces {} or the dict() constructor.
Yes, Python provides the 'heapq' module which allows you to use standard lists as min-heaps.
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