_siftup and _siftdown implementation

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 07:50 am, srinivas devaki wrote:

> _siftdown function breaks out of the loop when the current pos has a valid
> parent.
> 
> but _siftup function is not implemented in that fashion, if a valid
> subheap is given to the _siftup, it will bring down the root of sub heap
> and then again bring it up to its original place.
> 
> I was wondering why it is so, is it just to make the code look simple???

Hi Srinivas,

I'm sure that your question is obvious to you, but it's not obvious to us.
Where are _siftup and _siftdown defined? Are they in your code? Somebody
else's code? A library? Which library? What do they do? Where are they
from?




-- 
Steven