> Why do you think they are not? Because they aren't. You even mentioned that a few operations that aren't atomic. If operations are atomic it isn't necessarily because of the design of the list, but the design of CPython. More specifically the GIL. I don't mean to imply that you can't get a multi-threaded app to communicate using lists, but the Queue is explicitly built for it and better suited.
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