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| author | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2004-01-29 06:37:52 (GMT) |
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| committer | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2004-01-29 06:37:52 (GMT) |
| commit | 756b3f3c15bd314ffa25299ca25465ae21e62a30 (patch) | |
| tree | f504d3ab53c151b7e88ebfebd069a034f80f5025 /Misc | |
| parent | 141d4e564314abde44189eb5e3a9f509dab045ff (diff) | |
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* 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
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@@ -121,6 +121,13 @@ Core and builtins Extension modules ----------------- +- Added a collections module containing a new datatype, deque(), + offering high-performance, thread-safe, memory friendly appends + and pops on either side of the deque. + +- Several modules now take advantage of collections.deque() for + improved performance: Queue, mutex, shlex, threading, and pydoc. + - The operator module has two new functions, attrgetter() and itemgetter() which are useful for creating fast data extractor functions for map(), list.sort(), itertools.groupby(), and |