looking for speed-up ideas

[Ram Bhamidipaty]

> 
> > Here is what it looks like after I added the heap module:
> > There is some kind of bug with the heappop routine not
> > returning a tupple. The output I am getting look like each
> > element of each tuple is being returned by heappop:
> 
> Is this reproducible?  Is it in the CVS version slated for Python 2.3?

It is reproducible but I'm using a C implementation of the heap. It
is not a standard python module.

-Ram