python: deque vs list performance comparison

Question

In python docs I can see that deque is a special collection highly optimized for poping/adding items from left or right sides. E.g. documentation says:

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Answer 1

For what it is worth:

> python -mtimeit -s 'import collections' -s 'c = collections.deque(xrange(1, 100000000))' 'c.pop()'
10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.11 usec per loop

> python -mtimeit -s 'c = range(1, 100000000)' 'c.pop()'
10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.174 usec per loop

> python -mtimeit -s 'import collections' -s 'c = collections.deque()' 'c.appendleft(1)'
10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.116 usec per loop

> python -mtimeit -s 'c = []' 'c.insert(0, 1)'
100000 loops, best of 3: 36.4 usec per loop

As you can see, where it really shines is in appendleft vs insert.