Sort with extra variables

[Thomas Dybdahl Ahle]

Den Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:46:05 -0800 skrev Paul Rubin:

> Thomas Dybdahl Ahle <lobais at gmail.com> writes:
>> Do you mean that I add my moves something like this?
>> 
>> from heapq import heappush, heappop
>> heap = []
>> for move in genAll():
>>     heappush(heap, (-getMoveValue (board, table, ply, move), move))
>> 
>> And then use heappop(heap) in the alphabeta loop?
> 
> Yes, something like that.  If you want to get, say, the five smallest
> values in a list, heapq lets you do that without having to sort the
> whole list.

Yeah, I use this now. The only think I don't really like, is the need of 
creating a ton of tupples, but it doesn't show me too much it seams.