[issue42301] Add function to exploit heapq structure to locate an index of element

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> added the comment:

What is the use case for this?

This doesn't seem to be a typical heap operation.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heap_(data_structure)#Operations

Have you seen the in other heap APIs?

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components: +Library (Lib) -Extension Modules
title: Lack function to track index of an element in heapq -> Add function to exploit heapq structure to locate an index of element
versions:  -Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9

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