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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 16:20:57 +0100
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Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:91971

I wanted a piece of code to write alternatively to the left and right 
sides of a deque.  I remembered a stackoverflow question about toggling 
with an excellent answer from Raymond Hettinger.  So I now have this.

right = not right

Isn't that just beautiful?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence