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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2004-02-06 19:04:56 (GMT)
committerRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2004-02-06 19:04:56 (GMT)
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Have deques support high volume loads.
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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libcollections.tex b/Doc/lib/libcollections.tex
index e6ccd7a..ebb2079 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libcollections.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libcollections.tex
@@ -37,6 +37,17 @@ Deque objects support the following methods:
Remove all elements from the deque leaving it with length 0.
\end{methoddesc}
+\begin{methoddesc}{extend}{iterable}
+ Extend the right side of the deque by appending elements from
+ the iterable argument.
+\end{methoddesc}
+
+\begin{methoddesc}{extendleft}{iterable}
+ Extend the left side of the deque by appending elements from
+ \var{iterable}. Note, the series of left appends results in
+ reversing the order of elements in the iterable argument.
+\end{methoddesc}
+
\begin{methoddesc}{pop}{}
Remove and return an element from the right side of the deque.
If no elements are present, raises a \exception{LookupError}.
@@ -75,14 +86,19 @@ deque(['f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j'])
['g', 'h', 'i']
>>> 'h' in d # search the deque
True
->>> d.__init__('jkl') # use __init__ to append many elements at once
+>>> d.extend('jkl') # extend() will append many elements at once
>>> d
deque(['g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l'])
>>> d.clear() # empty the deque
->>> d.pop() # try to pop from an empty deque
+>>> d.pop() # cannot pop from an empty deque
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#6>", line 1, in -toplevel-
d.pop()
LookupError: pop from an empty deque
+
+>>> d.extendleft('abc') # extendleft() reverses the element order
+>>> d
+deque(['c', 'b', 'a'])
+
\end{verbatim}