April 19, 2009
1:40 a.m.
Facundo, I would like to work with you on this. I've been the primary maintainer for heapq for a while and had already started working on something like this in response to repeated requested to support a key= function (like that for sorted/min/max). Raymond
I think that changing "external list" for "internal attribute", and "bunch of functions " for "methods", it will leave the module easier to use, safer, and more object oriented.
+1 -- I recently did a short presentation on Big O notation and Python containers, and heapq looked remarkably ugly.