Re: [Python-ideas] Adding a thin wrapper class around the functions in stdlib.heapq

Grant Jenks wrote:

The heap algorithm is exposed through a high-level functional interface so that you can take advantage of duck-typing.

This would also be true of a HeapWrapper class that wrapped an existing sequence.

There's a difference between the heap functions and sorted(). The latter is just a single function that does its job and returns a result. But the heap interface is a collection of functions that have to be used together in the right way to maintain the heap invariants. That suggests some encapsulation is in order.