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Fri Jan 9 18:07:04 EST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-January/041880.html

Tim Peters wrote:
> [Josiah Carlson]
> 
>>There's been a python-based FIFO that is O(1) on {push, pop} and uses
>>lists in the ASPN Python cookbook (adding len is easy):
>>http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/210459
>>You'd probably be more interested in the variant I posted as a
>>comment; it is significantly faster when the output queue is
>>exhausted.
> 
> Yup!  Yours is the nicest way to build an efficient (but thread-unsafe)
> queue in Python.

FWIW, if you're interested in fast stacks and queues you may
want to have a look at mxStack and mxQueue from the egenix-mx-base
distribution.

They have nothing to do with threads (who needs them anyway
when we have copy-on-write :-).

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