* Move collections.deque() in from the sandbox

* Add unittests, newsitem, and whatsnew
* Apply to Queue.py mutex.py threading.py pydoc.py and shlex.py
* Docs are forthcoming

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/Queue.py b/Lib/Queue.py
index 980aee6..44c9ca3 100644
--- a/Lib/Queue.py
+++ b/Lib/Queue.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 """A multi-producer, multi-consumer queue."""
 
 from time import time as _time, sleep as _sleep
+from collections import deque
 
 __all__ = ['Empty', 'Full', 'Queue']
 
@@ -184,7 +185,7 @@ class Queue:
     # Initialize the queue representation
     def _init(self, maxsize):
         self.maxsize = maxsize
-        self.queue = []
+        self.queue = deque()
 
     def _qsize(self):
         return len(self.queue)
@@ -203,4 +204,4 @@ class Queue:
 
     # Get an item from the queue
     def _get(self):
-        return self.queue.pop(0)
+        return self.queue.popleft()