[Guido van Rossum]
[...] I admire the compactness of his code. I believe that this would make a good addition to the standard library, as a friend of the bisect module. [...] The only change I would make would be to make heap[0] the lowest value rather than the highest. I propose to call it heapq.py.
[Kevin O'Connor]
Looks good to me.
In case you going forward with `heapq', and glancing through my notes, I see that "Courageous" implemented a priority queue algorithm as a C extension, and discussed it on python-list on 2000-05-29. I'm not really expecting that you aim something else than a pure Python version, and I'm not pushing nor pulling for it, as I do not have an opinion. In any case, I'll keep these messages a few more days: just ask, and I'll send you a copy of what I saved at the time. P.S. - I'm quickly loosing interests in these bits of C code meant for speed, as if I ever need C speed, the wonderful Pyrex tool (from Greg Ewing) gives it to me while allowing the algorithm to be expressed in a language close to Python. I even wonder if Pyrex could not be a proper avenue for the development of some parts of the Python distribution itself. -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard