diff --git a/python/src/com/jetbrains/numpy/codeInsight/NumpyDocStringTypeProvider.java b/python/src/com/jetbrains/numpy/codeInsight/NumpyDocStringTypeProvider.java
index 624a8120d028..2478a2d5a1cb 100644
--- a/python/src/com/jetbrains/numpy/codeInsight/NumpyDocStringTypeProvider.java
+++ b/python/src/com/jetbrains/numpy/codeInsight/NumpyDocStringTypeProvider.java
@@ -71,7 +71,11 @@ public class NumpyDocStringTypeProvider extends PyTypeProviderBase {
     // 3 occurrences
     NUMPY_ALIAS_TO_REAL_TYPE.put("number", "int or long or float or complex");
 
+    //treat all collections as iterable
     NUMPY_ALIAS_TO_REAL_TYPE.put("sequence", "collections.Iterable");
+    NUMPY_ALIAS_TO_REAL_TYPE.put("set", "collections.Iterable");
+    NUMPY_ALIAS_TO_REAL_TYPE.put("list", "collections.Iterable");
+    NUMPY_ALIAS_TO_REAL_TYPE.put("tuple", "collections.Iterable");
 
     NUMPY_ALIAS_TO_REAL_TYPE.put("ints", "int");
   }