deque as default list behaviour
Chris Angelico
rosuav at gmail.com
Sun Mar 3 02:44:45 EST 2019
On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 6:17 PM Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
<arj.python at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> simple question; why does the normal list not exhibit a deque behaviour
> (left insertion)?
Because it's a lot less efficient. If you want that behaviour, you CAN
still insert into a list at position zero, but it's going to be slow
on large lists; or if you want it to be efficient, the deque is
available in the standard library.
ChrisA
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