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How does collections.deque work internally?

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Doubly-linked blocks.

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deque is a doubly-linked list of fixed-size blocks, giving O(1) appends and pops at both ends, unlike a list whose front operations are O(n).

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PYO(1) both ends, plus a maxlen sliding window
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