On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 6:17 PM Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer <arj.pyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > simple question; why does the normal list not exhibit a deque behaviour > (left insertion)?
Because it's a lot less efficient. If you want that behaviour, you CAN still insert into a list at position zero, but it's going to be slow on large lists; or if you want it to be efficient, the deque is available in the standard library. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list