Richard Oudkerk added the comment: > I did this to use the same abstraction that was used extensively for > other purposes, instead of recreating the same abstraction with a deque > as its basis.
So you wanted a FIFO queue and preferred the API of Queue to that of deque? Well it will be *much* less efficient. queue.Queue is also less efficient, but not by such a wide margin. I have added a documentation note. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18277> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
