Commit f5f9a370 authored by Raymond Hettinger's avatar Raymond Hettinger

Add an example application to the docs.

parent 6fbf703f
......@@ -128,5 +128,34 @@ IndexError: pop from an empty deque
>>> d.extendleft('abc') # extendleft() reverses the input order
>>> d
deque(['c', 'b', 'a'])
\end{verbatim}
A roundrobin task server can be built from a \class{deque} using
\method{popleft()} to select the current task and \method{append()}
to add it back to the tasklist if the input stream is not exhausted:
\begin{verbatim}
def roundrobin(*iterables):
pending = deque(iter(i) for i in iterables)
while pending:
task = pending.popleft()
try:
yield task.next()
except StopIteration:
continue
pending.append(task)
>>> for value in roundrobin('abc', 'd', 'efgh'):
print value
a
d
e
b
f
c
g
h
\end{verbatim}
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