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Author: rhettinger

Doc/library/typing.rst

@@ -563,6 +563,10 @@ The module defines the following classes, functions and decorators:
    As a shorthand for this type, :class:`bytes` can be used to
    annotate arguments of any of the types mentioned above.
 
+.. class:: Deque(deque, MutableSequence[T])
+
+   A generic version of :class:`collections.deque`.
+
 .. class:: List(list, MutableSequence[T])
 
    Generic version of :class:`list`.

Lib/test/test_typing.py

@@ -1572,6 +1572,9 @@ def test_bytestring(self):
     def test_list(self):
         self.assertIsSubclass(list, typing.List)
 
+    def test_deque(self):
+        self.assertIsSubclass(collections.deque, typing.Deque)
+
     def test_set(self):
         self.assertIsSubclass(set, typing.Set)
         self.assertNotIsSubclass(frozenset, typing.Set)
@@ -1642,6 +1645,14 @@ class MyDefDict(typing.DefaultDict[str, int]):
         self.assertIsSubclass(MyDefDict, collections.defaultdict)
         self.assertNotIsSubclass(collections.defaultdict, MyDefDict)
 
+    def test_no_deque_instantiation(self):
+        with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
+            typing.Deque()
+        with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
+            typing.Deque[T]()
+        with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
+            typing.Deque[int]()
+
     def test_no_set_instantiation(self):
         with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
             typing.Set()

Lib/typing.py

@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
     'SupportsRound',
 
     # Concrete collection types.
+    'Deque',
     'Dict',
     'DefaultDict',
     'List',
@@ -1771,6 +1772,15 @@ def __new__(cls, *args, **kwds):
                             "use list() instead")
         return _generic_new(list, cls, *args, **kwds)
 
+class Deque(collections.deque, MutableSequence[T], extra=collections.deque):
+
+    __slots__ = ()
+
+    def __new__(cls, *args, **kwds):
+        if _geqv(cls, Deque):
+            raise TypeError("Type Deque cannot be instantiated; "
+                            "use deque() instead")
+        return _generic_new(collections.deque, cls, *args, **kwds)
 
 class Set(set, MutableSet[T], extra=set):
 

Misc/NEWS

@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ Library
 - Issue #29219: Fixed infinite recursion in the repr of uninitialized
   ctypes.CDLL instances.
 
+- Issue #29011:  Fix an important omission by adding Deque to the typing module.
+
 - Issue #28969: Fixed race condition in C implementation of functools.lru_cache.
   KeyError could be raised when cached function with full cache was
   simultaneously called from differen threads with the same uncached arguments.