[Python-ideas] OrderedDict.peekitem()

[Mark Lawrence]

On 06/07/2015 16:38, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 07:39:58 -0700
> Kale Kundert <kale at thekunderts.net> wrote:
>
>> Today I was trying to use collections.OrderedDict to manage a LIFO
>> queue, and I was surprised to realize that OrderedDict doesn't
>> provide a way to look at its first or last item.  There is an
>> OrderedDict.popitem() method, which removes and returns either the
>> first or last item, but it's not hard to imagine cases where you
>> would want to see what's on the queue without popping it right away.
>
> What's wrong with using list, collections.Deque, heapq to manage a LIFO
> queue?
>

Or queue.LifoQueue or even multiprocessing.Queue depending on the 
precise requirements?

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Mark Lawrence