How do you add a string to a deque without breaking the string up into characters?

I am trying to create a deque of strings, b开发者_运维技巧ut when I add a string to the deque it always breaks the string up into individual characters. Here is my code so far:

from collections import deque

my_string = "test"
my_queue = deque(my_string)

print my_queue

The output I get is:

deque(['t', 'e', 's', 't'])

I would like the output to be:

deque(['test'])

Any thoughts?

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The deque constructor takes an iterable as a parameter, if you just give the string to it, it will interpret it as a sequence of characters.

In order to do what you want you should wrap your string into a list:

your_string = 'string'
wrap_list = [your_string]
#Now create the deque
d = deque(wrap_list)

Of course you can do everything in one step:

your_string = 'string'
d = deque([your_string])

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deque([my_string])

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deque takes in a list of items. A string is a list of characters, so the deque breaks the string in to characters. If you want to add whole strings at a time, you have to add the string into an array ['test1', 'test2', 'etc']
To answer your question: you need to use deque(['test'])