--- a/Doc/library/collections.rst	Thu Dec 10 06:00:33 2009 +0000
+++ b/Doc/library/collections.rst	Thu Dec 10 06:42:54 2009 +0000
@@ -379,6 +379,11 @@
 
       .. versionadded:: 2.5
 
+   .. method:: reverse()
+
+      Reverse the elements of the deque in-place and then return ``None``.
+
+      .. versionadded:: 2.7
 
    .. method:: rotate(n)
 

--- a/Lib/test/test_deque.py	Thu Dec 10 06:00:33 2009 +0000
+++ b/Lib/test/test_deque.py	Thu Dec 10 06:42:54 2009 +0000
@@ -204,6 +204,18 @@
             self.assertTrue(val not in d)
         self.assertEqual(len(d), 0)
 
+    def test_reverse(self):
+        n = 500         # O(n**2) test, don't make this too big
+        data = [random.random() for i in range(n)]
+        for i in range(n):
+            d = deque(data[:i])
+            r = d.reverse()
+            self.assertEqual(list(d), list(reversed(data[:i])))
+            self.assert_(r is None)
+            d.reverse()
+            self.assertEqual(list(d), data[:i])
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, d.reverse, 1)          # Arity is zero
+
     def test_rotate(self):
         s = tuple('abcde')
         n = len(s)

--- a/Misc/NEWS	Thu Dec 10 06:00:33 2009 +0000
+++ b/Misc/NEWS	Thu Dec 10 06:42:54 2009 +0000
@@ -513,6 +513,8 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Add a reverse() method to collections.deque().
+
 - Fix variations of extending deques:  d.extend(d)  d.extendleft(d)  d+=d
 
 - Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the

--- a/Modules/_collectionsmodule.c	Thu Dec 10 06:00:33 2009 +0000
+++ b/Modules/_collectionsmodule.c	Thu Dec 10 06:42:54 2009 +0000
@@ -462,6 +462,48 @@
 PyDoc_STRVAR(rotate_doc,
 "Rotate the deque n steps to the right (default n=1).  If n is negative, rotates left.");
 
+static PyObject *
+deque_reverse(dequeobject *deque, PyObject *unused)
+{
+	block *leftblock = deque->leftblock;
+	block *rightblock = deque->rightblock;
+	Py_ssize_t leftindex = deque->leftindex;
+	Py_ssize_t rightindex = deque->rightindex;
+	Py_ssize_t n = (deque->len)/2;
+	Py_ssize_t i;
+	PyObject *tmp;
+
+	for (i=0 ; i<n ; i++) {
+		/* Validate that pointers haven't met in the middle */
+		assert(leftblock != rightblock || leftindex < rightindex);
+
+		/* Swap */
+		tmp = leftblock->data[leftindex];
+		leftblock->data[leftindex] = rightblock->data[rightindex];
+		rightblock->data[rightindex] = tmp;
+
+		/* Advance left block/index pair */
+		leftindex++;
+		if (leftindex == BLOCKLEN) {
+			assert (leftblock->rightlink != NULL);
+			leftblock = leftblock->rightlink;
+			leftindex = 0;
+		}
+
+		/* Step backwards with the right block/index pair */
+		rightindex--;
+		if (rightindex == -1) {
+			assert (rightblock->leftlink != NULL);
+			rightblock = rightblock->leftlink;
+			rightindex = BLOCKLEN - 1;
+		}
+	}
+	Py_RETURN_NONE;
+}
+
+PyDoc_STRVAR(reverse_doc,
+"D.reverse() -- reverse *IN PLACE*");
+
 static Py_ssize_t
 deque_len(dequeobject *deque)
 {
@@ -963,6 +1005,8 @@
 		METH_O,		 remove_doc},
 	{"__reversed__",	(PyCFunction)deque_reviter,
 		METH_NOARGS,	 reversed_doc},
+	{"reverse",		(PyCFunction)deque_reverse,
+		METH_NOARGS,	 reverse_doc},
 	{"rotate",		(PyCFunction)deque_rotate,
 		METH_VARARGS,	rotate_doc},
 	{NULL,		NULL}	/* sentinel */