On 4 Set, 13:49, Alexandru Palade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure what you expect as an answer, but if you mean the heap as > in the data structure, you can not just arbitrarily move one key where > you want as it will destroy the heap property. > > > > Giampaolo Rodola' wrote: > > Hi, > > I wanted to know if does exist a safe way to, given a heap, move an > > arbitrary element to the first position of the heap. > > Something like: > > > >>> heap = [0,3,6,8,10] > > >>> heapq.move_to_first_position(heap, 4) > > >>> heap = [10, 0,3,6,8] > > > --- Giampaolo > >http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/ > > -- > >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list- Nascondi testo citato > > - Mostra testo citato -
Could I be able to do that if every element I want to move will have the value of 0 which is the smallest value I can have into my heap? What I'm trying to do is implementing a timeout: sometimes I want a given event which was scheduled to happen within X seconds to happen immediately. --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list