[Python-Dev] binary trees.

[Vladimir 'Yu' Stepanov]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Vladimir 'Yu' Stepanov wrote:
>   
>> Yes. I understood it when resulted a set example.
>>     
>>> However, as I just said, people usually don't remove items from
>>> just-sorted lists, they tend to iterate over them via 'for i in list:' .
>>>   
>>>       
>> Such problem arises at creation of the list of timers.
>>     
>
> For a list of timers/timeout events, a priority queue is often the best
> data structure, which is already available through the heapq module.
>   

It is in most cases valid so. heapq very much approaches for these purposes.
The unique problem is connected with removal of an any element from the 
list.

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Vladimir Stepanov