[New-bugs-announce] [issue19445] heapq.heapify is n log(n), not linear

[Blaise Gassend]

New submission from Blaise Gassend:

The documentation for heapq.heapify indicates that it runs in linear time. I believe that this is incorrect, and that it runs in worst case n * log(n) time. I checked the implementation, and there are indeed n _siftup operations, which each appear to be worst case log(n).

One example of the documentation pages that are wrong.
http://docs.python.org/3.4/library/heapq.html#heapq.heappush

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 201712
nosy: Blaise.Gassend, docs at python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: heapq.heapify is n log(n), not linear
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5

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