Modules in Python: deque

About deque

According to the Python documentation, “deques are a generalization of stacks and queues”. They are pronounced “deck” which is short for “double-ended queue”. They are a replacement container for the Python list. Deques are thread-safe and support memory efficient appends and pops from either side of the deque. A list is optimized for fast fixed-length operations. A deque accepts a maxlen argument which sets the bounds for the deque. ...