Benjamin Peterson wrote: > 2010/1/25 Steve Howell <showel...@yahoo.com>: >> I am interested in creating a patch to make deleting elements from the front >> of Python list work in O(1) time by advancing the ob_item pointer. > > How about just using a deque?
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