Isn't the problem that you don't know if it's still full on the next line? After all you supposedly have a multi-threaded app here, otherwise why bother with any of that? Or maybe you can describe the real-world use case where you wanted this in more detail? Without much more evidence I can't support such a change.
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 5:09 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ta...@ziade.org> wrote: > > Hey, > > When creating deque instances using a value for maxlen, it would be nice > to have a .full() method like what Queue provides, so one may do: > > my_deque = deque(maxlen=300) > > if my_deque.full(): > do_something() > > instead of doing: > > if len(my_deque) == my_deque.maxlen: > do_something() > > > If people think it's a good idea, I can add a ticket in the tracker and > try to provide a patch for the collections module maintainer. > If this was already talked about, or is a bad idea, sorry! :) > > Cheers > Tarek > -- > > Tarek Ziadé | coding: https://ziade.org | running: https://foule.es | > twitter: @tarek_ziade > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
