Working With Pythons deque: Getting Started & Popping/Appending Items Efficiently @realpython
Working With Pythons deque: Getting Started & Popping/Appending Items Efficiently  @realpython
Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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This is a preview of the video course, "Working With Python's deque". You can use Python’s deque for efficient appends and pops at both ends of a sequence-like data type. These capabilities are critical when you need to implement queue and stack data structures that operate efficiently even under heavy workloads.

This is a portion of the complete course, which you can find here: realpython.com/courses/working-with-pythons-deque

And the original text tutorial is here: realpython.com/python-deque

The rest of the course covers:
- Exercise: Cycle Through a Turn Order
- Accessing Random Items in a Deque
- Building Efficient Queues With Deque
- Exercise: Build a Stack on Top of a Deque
- Exploring Other Features of Deque
- Using Sequence-Like Features of Deque
- Putting Python's Deque Into Action
- Exercise: Keep a Listening History
- Working With Python's deque (Quiz)



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