[Guido van Rossum]
Oh, and maybe we can borrow a few lines of François's description of the algorithm. :-)
Borrow liberally! I would prefer that nothing worth remains un-borrowed from mine, so I can happily get rid of my copy when the time comes! :-)
I propose to call it heapq.py. (Got a better name? Now or never.)
I like `heapq' as it is not an English common name, like `heap' would be, so less likely to clash with user chosen variable names! This principle should be good in general. Sub-classing `heapq' from `list' is a good idea! P.S. - In other languages, I have been using `string' a lot, and this has been one of the minor irritations when I came to Python, that it forced me away of that identifier; so I'm now using `text' everywhere, instead. Another example is the name `socket', which is kind of reserved from the module name, I never really know how to name variables holding sockets :-). -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard