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[Andrew Dalke]

Joe Cheng:
> It might just be my Java background creeping in (I'm a Python newbie),
but,
> wouldn't it be better if this was OO?

Here's perhaps the definitive statement on the topic, from Tim Peters:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/python-dev/1620162

Summary: heapq is a concrete interface, not an abstract one.  It doesn't
try to encompass the different ways to do heaps.  It's like bisect in that
it works on an existing data type.

                    Andrew
                    dalke at dalkescientific.com