[Python-ideas] Heap data type

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sat Apr 18 14:43:58 CEST 2009


On Sat, Apr 18, 2009, Facundo Batista wrote:
>
> 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.  
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