* Move collections.deque() in from the sandbox
* Add unittests, newsitem, and whatsnew
* Apply to Queue.py mutex.py threading.py pydoc.py and shlex.py
* Docs are forthcoming
diff --git a/Lib/Queue.py b/Lib/Queue.py
index 980aee6..44c9ca3 100644
--- a/Lib/Queue.py
+++ b/Lib/Queue.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 """A multi-producer, multi-consumer queue."""
 
 from time import time as _time, sleep as _sleep
+from collections import deque
 
 __all__ = ['Empty', 'Full', 'Queue']
 
@@ -184,7 +185,7 @@
     # Initialize the queue representation
     def _init(self, maxsize):
         self.maxsize = maxsize
-        self.queue = []
+        self.queue = deque()
 
     def _qsize(self):
         return len(self.queue)
@@ -203,4 +204,4 @@
 
     # Get an item from the queue
     def _get(self):
-        return self.queue.pop(0)
+        return self.queue.popleft()
diff --git a/Lib/mutex.py b/Lib/mutex.py
index e15710a..5d35bdf 100644
--- a/Lib/mutex.py
+++ b/Lib/mutex.py
@@ -12,11 +12,13 @@
 for lock, where a function is called once the lock is aquired.
 """
 
+from collections import deque
+
 class mutex:
     def __init__(self):
         """Create a new mutex -- initially unlocked."""
         self.locked = 0
-        self.queue = []
+        self.queue = deque()
 
     def test(self):
         """Test the locked bit of the mutex."""
@@ -44,7 +46,7 @@
         """Unlock a mutex.  If the queue is not empty, call the next
         function with its argument."""
         if self.queue:
-            function, argument = self.queue.pop(0)
+            function, argument = self.queue.popleft()
             function(argument)
         else:
             self.locked = 0
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index e53aa16..e6b53c1 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
 import sys, imp, os, re, types, inspect, __builtin__
 from repr import Repr
 from string import expandtabs, find, join, lower, split, strip, rfind, rstrip
+from collections import deque
 
 # --------------------------------------------------------- common routines
 
@@ -685,7 +686,7 @@
         hr = HorizontalRule()
 
         # List the mro, if non-trivial.
-        mro = list(inspect.getmro(object))
+        mro = deque(inspect.getmro(object))
         if len(mro) > 2:
             hr.maybe()
             push('<dl><dt>Method resolution order:</dt>\n')
@@ -763,7 +764,7 @@
 
         while attrs:
             if mro:
-                thisclass = mro.pop(0)
+                thisclass = mro.popleft()
             else:
                 thisclass = attrs[0][2]
             attrs, inherited = _split_list(attrs, lambda t: t[2] is thisclass)
@@ -1083,7 +1084,7 @@
         push = contents.append
 
         # List the mro, if non-trivial.
-        mro = list(inspect.getmro(object))
+        mro = deque(inspect.getmro(object))
         if len(mro) > 2:
             push("Method resolution order:")
             for base in mro:
@@ -1152,7 +1153,7 @@
                        inspect.classify_class_attrs(object))
         while attrs:
             if mro:
-                thisclass = mro.pop(0)
+                thisclass = mro.popleft()
             else:
                 thisclass = attrs[0][2]
             attrs, inherited = _split_list(attrs, lambda t: t[2] is thisclass)
diff --git a/Lib/shlex.py b/Lib/shlex.py
index b302699..ccf9038 100644
--- a/Lib/shlex.py
+++ b/Lib/shlex.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
 import os.path
 import sys
+from collections import deque
 
 try:
     from cStringIO import StringIO
@@ -45,11 +46,11 @@
         self.escape = '\\'
         self.escapedquotes = '"'
         self.state = ' '
-        self.pushback = []
+        self.pushback = deque()
         self.lineno = 1
         self.debug = 0
         self.token = ''
-        self.filestack = []
+        self.filestack = deque()
         self.source = None
         if self.debug:
             print 'shlex: reading from %s, line %d' \
@@ -59,13 +60,13 @@
         "Push a token onto the stack popped by the get_token method"
         if self.debug >= 1:
             print "shlex: pushing token " + `tok`
-        self.pushback.insert(0, tok)
+        self.pushback.appendleft(tok)
 
     def push_source(self, newstream, newfile=None):
         "Push an input source onto the lexer's input source stack."
         if isinstance(newstream, basestring):
             newstream = StringIO(newstream)
-        self.filestack.insert(0, (self.infile, self.instream, self.lineno))
+        self.filestack.appendleft((self.infile, self.instream, self.lineno))
         self.infile = newfile
         self.instream = newstream
         self.lineno = 1
@@ -78,8 +79,7 @@
     def pop_source(self):
         "Pop the input source stack."
         self.instream.close()
-        (self.infile, self.instream, self.lineno) = self.filestack[0]
-        self.filestack = self.filestack[1:]
+        (self.infile, self.instream, self.lineno) = self.filestack.popleft()
         if self.debug:
             print 'shlex: popping to %s, line %d' \
                   % (self.instream, self.lineno)
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
     def get_token(self):
         "Get a token from the input stream (or from stack if it's nonempty)"
         if self.pushback:
-            tok = self.pushback.pop(0)
+            tok = self.pushback.popleft()
             if self.debug >= 1:
                 print "shlex: popping token " + `tok`
             return tok
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@
                     or self.whitespace_split:
                     self.token = self.token + nextchar
                 else:
-                    self.pushback.insert(0, nextchar)
+                    self.pushback.appendleft(nextchar)
                     if self.debug >= 2:
                         print "shlex: I see punctuation in word state"
                     self.state = ' '
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_bisect.py b/Lib/test/test_bisect.py
index 809d8af..6bb2112 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_bisect.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_bisect.py
@@ -170,23 +170,6 @@
     >>> map(grade, [33, 99, 77, 44, 12, 88])
     ['E', 'A', 'B', 'D', 'F', 'A']
 
-The bisect module can be used with the Queue module to implement
-a priority queue (example courtesy of Fredrik Lundh):
-
->>> import Queue, bisect
->>> class PriorityQueue(Queue.Queue):
-...     def _put(self, item):
-...         bisect.insort(self.queue, item)
-...
->>> queue = PriorityQueue(0)
->>> queue.put((2, "second"))
->>> queue.put((1, "first"))
->>> queue.put((3, "third"))
->>> queue.get()
-(1, 'first')
->>> queue.get()
-(2, 'second')
-
 """
 
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_deque.py b/Lib/test/test_deque.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6221c91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/test/test_deque.py
@@ -0,0 +1,337 @@
+from collections import deque
+import unittest
+from test import test_support
+import copy
+import cPickle as pickle
+from cStringIO import StringIO
+
+BIG = 100000
+
+class TestBasic(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_basics(self):
+        d = deque(xrange(100))
+        d.__init__(xrange(100, 200))
+        for i in xrange(200, 400):
+            d.append(i)
+        for i in reversed(xrange(-200, 0)):
+            d.appendleft(i)
+        self.assertEqual(list(d), range(-200, 400))
+        self.assertEqual(len(d), 600)
+
+        left = [d.popleft() for i in xrange(250)]
+        self.assertEqual(left, range(-200, 50))
+        self.assertEqual(list(d), range(50, 400))
+
+        right = [d.pop() for i in xrange(250)]
+        right.reverse()
+        self.assertEqual(right, range(150, 400))
+        self.assertEqual(list(d), range(50, 150))
+
+    def test_len(self):
+        d = deque('ab')
+        self.assertEqual(len(d), 2)
+        d.popleft()
+        self.assertEqual(len(d), 1)
+        d.pop()
+        self.assertEqual(len(d), 0)
+        self.assertRaises(LookupError, d.pop)
+        self.assertEqual(len(d), 0)
+        d.append('c')
+        self.assertEqual(len(d), 1)
+        d.appendleft('d')
+        self.assertEqual(len(d), 2)
+        d.clear()
+        self.assertEqual(len(d), 0)
+
+    def test_underflow(self):
+        d = deque()
+        self.assertRaises(LookupError, d.pop)
+        self.assertRaises(LookupError, d.popleft)
+
+    def test_clear(self):
+        d = deque(xrange(100))
+        self.assertEqual(len(d), 100)
+        d.clear()
+        self.assertEqual(len(d), 0)
+        self.assertEqual(list(d), [])
+
+    def test_repr(self):
+        d = deque(xrange(200))
+        e = eval(repr(d))
+        self.assertEqual(list(d), list(e))
+        d.append(d)
+        self.assert_('...' in repr(d))
+
+    def test_print(self):
+        d = deque(xrange(200))
+        d.append(d)
+        f = StringIO()
+        print >> f, d,
+        self.assertEqual(f.getvalue(), repr(d))
+        f.close()
+
+    def test_hash(self):
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, hash, deque('abc'))
+
+    def test_long_steadystate_queue_popleft(self):
+        for size in (0, 1, 2, 100, 1000):
+            d = deque(xrange(size))
+            append, pop = d.append, d.popleft
+            for i in xrange(size, BIG):
+                append(i)
+                x = pop()
+                if x != i - size:
+                    self.assertEqual(x, i-size)
+            self.assertEqual(list(d), range(BIG-size, BIG))
+
+    def test_long_steadystate_queue_popright(self):
+        for size in (0, 1, 2, 100, 1000):
+            d = deque(reversed(xrange(size)))
+            append, pop = d.appendleft, d.pop
+            for i in xrange(size, BIG):
+                append(i)
+                x = pop()
+                if x != i - size:
+                    self.assertEqual(x, i-size)
+            self.assertEqual(list(reversed(list(d))), range(BIG-size, BIG))
+
+    def test_big_queue_popleft(self):
+        pass
+        d = deque()
+        append, pop = d.append, d.popleft
+        for i in xrange(BIG):
+            append(i)
+        for i in xrange(BIG):
+            x = pop()
+            if x != i:
+                self.assertEqual(x, i)
+
+    def test_big_queue_popright(self):
+        d = deque()
+        append, pop = d.appendleft, d.pop
+        for i in xrange(BIG):
+            append(i)
+        for i in xrange(BIG):
+            x = pop()
+            if x != i:
+                self.assertEqual(x, i)
+
+    def test_big_stack_right(self):
+        d = deque()
+        append, pop = d.append, d.pop
+        for i in xrange(BIG):
+            append(i)
+        for i in reversed(xrange(BIG)):
+            x = pop()
+            if x != i:
+                self.assertEqual(x, i)
+        self.assertEqual(len(d), 0)
+
+    def test_big_stack_left(self):
+        d = deque()
+        append, pop = d.appendleft, d.popleft
+        for i in xrange(BIG):
+            append(i)
+        for i in reversed(xrange(BIG)):
+            x = pop()
+            if x != i:
+                self.assertEqual(x, i)
+        self.assertEqual(len(d), 0)
+
+    def test_roundtrip_iter_init(self):
+        d = deque(xrange(200))
+        e = deque(d)
+        self.assertNotEqual(id(d), id(e))
+        self.assertEqual(list(d), list(e))
+
+    def test_pickle(self):
+        d = deque(xrange(200))
+        s = pickle.dumps(d)
+        e = pickle.loads(s)
+        self.assertNotEqual(id(d), id(e))
+        self.assertEqual(list(d), list(e))
+
+    def test_deepcopy(self):
+        mut = [10]
+        d = deque([mut])
+        e = copy.deepcopy(d)
+        self.assertEqual(list(d), list(e))
+        mut[0] = 11
+        self.assertNotEqual(id(d), id(e))
+        self.assertNotEqual(list(d), list(e))
+
+    def test_copy(self):
+        mut = [10]
+        d = deque([mut])
+        e = copy.copy(d)
+        self.assertEqual(list(d), list(e))
+        mut[0] = 11
+        self.assertNotEqual(id(d), id(e))
+        self.assertEqual(list(d), list(e))
+
+def R(seqn):
+    'Regular generator'
+    for i in seqn:
+        yield i
+
+class G:
+    'Sequence using __getitem__'
+    def __init__(self, seqn):
+        self.seqn = seqn
+    def __getitem__(self, i):
+        return self.seqn[i]
+
+class I:
+    'Sequence using iterator protocol'
+    def __init__(self, seqn):
+        self.seqn = seqn
+        self.i = 0
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return self
+    def next(self):
+        if self.i >= len(self.seqn): raise StopIteration
+        v = self.seqn[self.i]
+        self.i += 1
+        return v
+
+class Ig:
+    'Sequence using iterator protocol defined with a generator'
+    def __init__(self, seqn):
+        self.seqn = seqn
+        self.i = 0
+    def __iter__(self):
+        for val in self.seqn:
+            yield val
+
+class X:
+    'Missing __getitem__ and __iter__'
+    def __init__(self, seqn):
+        self.seqn = seqn
+        self.i = 0
+    def next(self):
+        if self.i >= len(self.seqn): raise StopIteration
+        v = self.seqn[self.i]
+        self.i += 1
+        return v
+
+class N:
+    'Iterator missing next()'
+    def __init__(self, seqn):
+        self.seqn = seqn
+        self.i = 0
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return self
+
+class E:
+    'Test propagation of exceptions'
+    def __init__(self, seqn):
+        self.seqn = seqn
+        self.i = 0
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return self
+    def next(self):
+        3/0
+
+class S:
+    'Test immediate stop'
+    def __init__(self, seqn):
+        pass
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return self
+    def next(self):
+        raise StopIteration
+
+from itertools import chain, imap
+def L(seqn):
+    'Test multiple tiers of iterators'
+    return chain(imap(lambda x:x, R(Ig(G(seqn)))))
+
+
+class TestVariousIteratorArgs(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_constructor(self):
+        for s in ("123", "", range(1000), ('do', 1.2), xrange(2000,2200,5)):
+            for g in (G, I, Ig, S, L, R):
+                self.assertEqual(list(deque(g(s))), list(g(s)))
+            self.assertRaises(TypeError, deque, X(s))
+            self.assertRaises(TypeError, deque, N(s))
+            self.assertRaises(ZeroDivisionError, deque, E(s))
+
+    def test_iter_with_altered_data(self):
+        d = deque('abcdefg')
+        it = iter(d)
+        d.pop()
+        self.assertRaises(RuntimeError, it.next)
+
+class Deque(deque):
+    pass
+
+class TestSubclass(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_basics(self):
+        d = Deque(xrange(100))
+        d.__init__(xrange(100, 200))
+        for i in xrange(200, 400):
+            d.append(i)
+        for i in reversed(xrange(-200, 0)):
+            d.appendleft(i)
+        self.assertEqual(list(d), range(-200, 400))
+        self.assertEqual(len(d), 600)
+
+        left = [d.popleft() for i in xrange(250)]
+        self.assertEqual(left, range(-200, 50))
+        self.assertEqual(list(d), range(50, 400))
+
+        right = [d.pop() for i in xrange(250)]
+        right.reverse()
+        self.assertEqual(right, range(150, 400))
+        self.assertEqual(list(d), range(50, 150))
+
+        d.clear()
+        self.assertEqual(len(d), 0)
+
+    def test_copy_pickle(self):
+
+        d = Deque('abc')
+
+        e = d.__copy__()
+        self.assertEqual(type(d), type(e))
+        self.assertEqual(list(d), list(e))
+
+        e = Deque(d)
+        self.assertEqual(type(d), type(e))
+        self.assertEqual(list(d), list(e))
+
+        s = pickle.dumps(d)
+        e = pickle.loads(s)
+        self.assertNotEqual(id(d), id(e))
+        self.assertEqual(type(d), type(e))
+        self.assertEqual(list(d), list(e))
+
+
+#==============================================================================
+
+def test_main(verbose=None):
+    import sys
+    from test import test_sets
+    test_classes = (
+        TestBasic,
+        TestVariousIteratorArgs,
+        TestSubclass,
+    )
+
+    test_support.run_unittest(*test_classes)
+
+    # verify reference counting
+    if verbose and hasattr(sys, "gettotalrefcount"):
+        import gc
+        counts = [None] * 5
+        for i in xrange(len(counts)):
+            test_support.run_unittest(*test_classes)
+            gc.collect()
+            counts[i] = sys.gettotalrefcount()
+        print counts
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    test_main(verbose=True)
diff --git a/Lib/threading.py b/Lib/threading.py
index c5d5af3..6461adc 100644
--- a/Lib/threading.py
+++ b/Lib/threading.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 
 from time import time as _time, sleep as _sleep
 from traceback import format_exc as _format_exc
+from collections import deque
 
 # Rename some stuff so "from threading import *" is safe
 __all__ = ['activeCount', 'Condition', 'currentThread', 'enumerate', 'Event',
@@ -639,7 +640,7 @@
             self.rc = Condition(self.mon)
             self.wc = Condition(self.mon)
             self.limit = limit
-            self.queue = []
+            self.queue = deque()
 
         def put(self, item):
             self.mon.acquire()
@@ -657,7 +658,7 @@
             while not self.queue:
                 self._note("get(): queue empty")
                 self.rc.wait()
-            item = self.queue.pop(0)
+            item = self.queue.popleft()
             self._note("get(): got %s, %d left", item, len(self.queue))
             self.wc.notify()
             self.mon.release()