Commit a39f2afe authored by Georg Brandl's avatar Georg Brandl

Mention inefficiency of lists as queues, add link to collections.deque discussion.

parent 0b56ce0b
......@@ -154,6 +154,11 @@ the queue, use :meth:`pop` with ``0`` as the index. For example::
>>> queue
['Michael', 'Terry', 'Graham']
However, since lists are implemented as an array of elements, they are not the
optimal data structure to use as a queue (the ``pop(0)`` needs to move all
following elements). See :ref:`tut-list-tools` for a look at
:class:`collections.deque`, which is designed to work efficiently as a queue.
.. _tut-functional:
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