[Python-ideas] Heap data type, the revival

[Nick Timkovich]

Functions are great; I'm a big fan of functions. That said, the group
of heapq.heap* functions are literally OOP without using that "class"
word. As far as flexibility, what is the use of the those functions on
non-heap structures?

On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Sven R. Kunze <srkunze at mail.de> wrote:
> On 15.10.2016 23:19, Nick Timkovich wrote:
>>
>> Features and speed are good, but I'm interested in getting something
>> with the basic features into the Standard Library so it's just there.
>> Not having done that before and bit clueless, I'm wanting to learn
>> that slightly less-technical procedure. What are the steps to make
>> that happen?
>
>
> As I said, it has been discussed and the consensus so far was: "not
> everything needs to be a class if it does not provide substantial benefit" +
> "functions are more flexible" + "if it's slower that the original it won't
> happen".
>
> Cheers,
> Sven