How to force a list to a fixed size?

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You might want to use a collections.deque object with the maxlen constructor argument instead:

>>>l = collections.deque(maxlen=5)
>>>l.append('apple')
>>>l.append('orange')
>>>l.append('grape')
>>>l.append('banana')
>>>l.append('mango')
>>>print(l)
deque(['apple','orange','grape','banana','mango'], maxlen=5)
>>>l.append('kiwi')
>>>print(l)
deque(['orange','grape','banana','mango','kiwi'], maxlen=5) #only 5 items in list

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