
Data Structure

This illustrates a data structure, a means of storing data within a program.

You may see other such structures in the Data Structures category.
 Illustration of FIFO behavior
Task

Create a queue data structure and demonstrate its operations.

(For implementations of queues, see the FIFO task.)



Operations:

   push       (aka enqueue) - add element
   pop         (aka dequeue) - pop first element
   empty     - return truth value when empty


See also

 Array
 Associative array: Creation, Iteration
 Collections
 Compound data type
 Doubly-linked list: Definition, Element definition, Element insertion, List Traversal, Element Removal
 Linked list
 Queue: Definition, Usage
 Set
 Singly-linked list: Element definition, Element insertion, List Traversal, Element Removal
 Stack


import Queue
my_queue = Queue.Queue()
my_queue.put("foo")
my_queue.put("bar")
my_queue.put("baz")
print my_queue.get()  # foo
print my_queue.get()  # bar
print my_queue.get()  # baz