James Lu added the comment:
Even a wrapper class would be helpful, it's simply more pythonic.
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Raymond Hettinger
wrote:
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> Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
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> The main reason is that there would be very little benefit. Lists are a
> very efficient data st
Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
The main reason is that there would be very little benefit. Lists are a very
efficient data structure and the heap manipulations are also very cheap.
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assignee: -> rhettinger
nosy: +rhettinger
resolution: -> rejected
status: open -> closed
New submission from James Lu:
The heapq library uses a list or other mutable sequence time to represent a
heap. Since Python is a highly OOP language, why not make heaps their own data
type?
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nosy: James.Lu
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