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Subject DequeLevel Mid–Senior~25 minCommon in Algorithms & data structures interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

Implement a fixed-capacity circular deque (size k) backed by an array. Process ops: ['insertFront', x] / ['insertLast', x] add to the front/back and return True, or False if full; ['deleteFront'] / ['deleteLast'] remove from the front/back and return True, or False if empty; ['getFront'] / ['getRear'] return the front/rear value or -1 if empty; ['isEmpty'] / ['isFull'] return booleans. Return the list of results for every op, in order. k >= 1.

Implement
circular_deque(k: int, ops: list[list]) → list
Examples
in[3,[["insertLast",1],["insertLast",2],["insertFront",3],["insertFront",4],["getRear"],["isFull"],["deleteLast"],["insertFront",4],["getFront"]]]out[true,true,true,false,2,true,true,true,4]
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