[issue13742] Add a key parameter (like sorted) to heapq.merge

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson added the comment:

Looks pretty good to me.

- There's a bonus print call in the diff.

- Should the "len(self._data)" call be protected by the lock?  I can't immediately think of any reason why that would be necessary (e.g., pushpop nd poppush never change the size of self._data, so there's no risk of getting a bogus length there), but the lack of the lock makes me nervous.

- Support for iter() seems a bit out of place to me.  What are the use-cases for this?  Would it make sense to leave this out (for now)?

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