Safely move an element into a heap

[Alexandru Palade]

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]
>
>
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