[Python-Dev] Priority queue (binary heap) python code

[Greg Ewing]

Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>:

> I don't know how efficient it would be, but I usually think that most
> applications have a small, fixed set of possible priorities

Some applications of priority queues are like that,
but others aren't -- e.g. an event queue in a discrete
event simulation, where events are ordered by time.
I expect that's the sort of application Kevin had
in mind.

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