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127 lines
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\section{\module{collections} ---
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High-performance container datatypes}
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\declaremodule{standard}{collections}
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\modulesynopsis{High-performance datatypes}
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\moduleauthor{Raymond Hettinger}{python@rcn.com}
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\sectionauthor{Raymond Hettinger}{python@rcn.com}
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\versionadded{2.4}
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This module implements high-performance container datatypes. Currently, the
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only datatype is a deque. Future additions may include B-trees
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and Fibonacci heaps.
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\begin{funcdesc}{deque}{\optional{iterable}}
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Returns a new deque objected initialized left-to-right (using
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\method{append()}) with data from \var{iterable}. If \var{iterable}
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is not specified, the new deque is empty.
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Deques are a generalization of stacks and queues (the name is pronounced
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``deck'' and is short for ``double-ended queue''). Deques support
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thread-safe, memory efficient appends and pops from either side of the deque
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with approximately the same \code{O(1)} performance in either direction.
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Though \class{list} objects support similar operations, they are optimized
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for fast fixed-length operations and incur \code{O(n)} memory movement costs
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for \samp{pop(0)} and \samp{insert(0, v)} operations which change both the
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size and position of the underlying data representation.
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\versionadded{2.4}
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\end{funcdesc}
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Deque objects support the following methods:
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\begin{methoddesc}{append}{x}
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Add \var{x} to the right side of the deque.
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\end{methoddesc}
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\begin{methoddesc}{appendleft}{x}
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Add \var{x} to the left side of the deque.
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\end{methoddesc}
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\begin{methoddesc}{clear}{}
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Remove all elements from the deque leaving it with length 0.
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\end{methoddesc}
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\begin{methoddesc}{extend}{iterable}
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Extend the right side of the deque by appending elements from
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the iterable argument.
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\end{methoddesc}
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\begin{methoddesc}{extendleft}{iterable}
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Extend the left side of the deque by appending elements from
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\var{iterable}. Note, the series of left appends results in
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reversing the order of elements in the iterable argument.
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\end{methoddesc}
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\begin{methoddesc}{pop}{}
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Remove and return an element from the right side of the deque.
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If no elements are present, raises a \exception{LookupError}.
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\end{methoddesc}
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\begin{methoddesc}{popleft}{}
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Remove and return an element from the left side of the deque.
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If no elements are present, raises a \exception{LookupError}.
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\end{methoddesc}
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\begin{methoddesc}{rotate}{n}
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Rotate the deque \var{n} steps to the right. If \var{n} is
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negative, rotate to the left. Rotating one step to the right
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is equivalent to: \samp{d.appendleft(d.pop())}.
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\end{methoddesc}
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In addition to the above, deques support iteration, pickling, \samp{len(d)},
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\samp{reversed(d)}, \samp{copy.copy(d)}, \samp{copy.deepcopy(d)}, and
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membership testing with the \keyword{in} operator.
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Example:
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\begin{verbatim}
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>>> from collections import deque
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>>> d = deque('ghi') # make a new deque with three items
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>>> for elem in d: # iterate over the deque's elements
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print elem.upper()
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G
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H
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I
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>>> d.append('j') # add a new entry to the right side
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>>> d.appendleft('f') # add a new entry to the left side
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>>> d # show the representation of the deque
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deque(['f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j'])
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>>> d.pop() # return and remove the rightmost item
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'j'
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>>> d.popleft() # return and remove the leftmost item
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'f'
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>>> list(d) # list the contents of the deque
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['g', 'h', 'i']
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>>> list(reversed(d)) # list the contents of a deque in reverse
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['i', 'h', 'g']
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>>> 'h' in d # search the deque
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True
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>>> d.extend('jkl') # add multiple elements at once
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>>> d
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deque(['g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l'])
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>>> d.rotate(1) # right rotation
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>>> d
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deque(['l', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k'])
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>>> d.rotate(-1) # left rotation
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>>> d
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deque(['g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l'])
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>>> deque(reversed(d)) # make a new deque in reverse order
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deque(['l', 'k', 'j', 'i', 'h', 'g'])
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>>> d.clear() # empty the deque
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>>> d.pop() # cannot pop from an empty deque
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Traceback (most recent call last):
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File "<pyshell#6>", line 1, in -toplevel-
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d.pop()
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LookupError: pop from an empty deque
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>>> d.extendleft('abc') # extendleft() reverses the input order
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>>> d
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deque(['c', 'b', 'a'])
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\end{verbatim}
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