Gabriel Genellina gagsl-py at yahoo.com.ar
Tue Jan 16 20:10:00 EST 2007

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At Tuesday 16/1/2007 15:01, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

>         If "Queue like functionality" means inserting at the end, and
>removing from the front... Just use a list

Someone said that time complexity should be part of an object public 
interfase. Implementing a queue using Python lists is trivial in 
terms of lines of code needed, but has a big time penalty. Queue 
users expect that put() and get() were fast, O(1) operations, but 
list.pop(0) is O(n).
Python>=2.4 has a deque class (in the collections module) that can be 
used as a simple queue, and is efficient both in time and memory used.


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Gabriel Genellina
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