Safely move an element into a heap

[Giampaolo Rodola']

On 4 Set, 13:49, Alexandru Palade <alexandru.pal... at sellerengine.com>
wrote:
> I'm not sure what you expect as an answer, but if you mean the heap as
> in the data structure, you can not just arbitrarily move one key where
> you want as it will destroy the heap property.
>
>
>
> Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I wanted to know if does exist a safe way to, given a heap, move an
> > arbitrary element to the first position of the heap.
> > Something like:
>
> >  >>> heap = [0,3,6,8,10]
> >  >>> heapq.move_to_first_position(heap, 4)
> >  >>> heap = [10, 0,3,6,8]
>
> > --- Giampaolo
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Could I be able to do that if every element I want to move will have
the value of 0 which is the smallest value I can have into my heap?
What I'm trying to do is implementing a timeout: sometimes I want a
given event which was scheduled to happen within X seconds to happen
immediately.


--- Giampaolo
http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/