[Python-ideas] Reimplementing collections.deque as a dynamic array

Alexandre Vassalotti alexandre at peadrop.com
Tue May 29 08:50:32 CEST 2012


The current implementation of deque is a doubly linked list of arrays.
Indexing is indeed linear, but still very efficient. It takes 1 ms to index
a deque with a million items.

If that's not good enough, you should try to implement your own container
using lists (which are dynamic arrays in Python). That should be easy to
implement though this approach will likely be slower for everything but
very large datasets.
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