On Oct 19, 11:26 am, xkenneth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > Just a quick question. I want to be able to have a data structure > that organizes data (timestamps I'm working with) sequentially, so > that i can easily retrieve the first x amount of timeStamps without > iterating over a list. My thought was to use a binary tree, am i > overthinking the problem to try and implement this structure inside of > python? I was also hoping this would already be done for me.
Try heapq.nsmallest(). Raymond -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list