[Python-Dev] Re: heapq method names

[François Pinard]

[Tim Peters]

> Note that it's common to use the bisect module in the

>     from bisect import bisect_right, bisect, insort

> way too, rather than spell out bisect.bisect (etc) each time.  That's "the
> other" module that (conceptually) adds new methods to lists.

Wow!  You just put the finger on it...  I wondered a few times why this
module never attracted me! :-) :-)

> If you want simpler names, I'm finding this little module quite pleasant
> to use: [...]  That is, it creates a Heap type that's just a list with
> some extra methods.

Very elegant indeed.  Something like this was discussed earlier, but faded
out of my memory.  Thanks for the tip, Tim!

> Note that the "pop" method can't be named "pop"!  If you try, you'll soon
> get unbounded recursion because the heapq functions need list.pop to access
> the list meaning of "pop".

Sold!  `popmin' is adequate and clear.

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