Pop a list from beginning ? and memory saving...

[David Eppstein]

In article <3CF9EB89.7CA7204B at doc.ic.ac.uk>,
 Benjamin Tai <bt98 at doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote:

> You could try a.pop(0), which pop the first instance of the list, like a FIFO.

But he said the list was huge, so this will be very slow.
See e.g. <http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e79e99edc138cb02> for prior 
discussion of this issue and comparison of implementation strategies.

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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/