[Python-Dev] binary trees. Review obmalloc.c

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat May 6 08:20:26 CEST 2006


Vladimir 'Yu' Stepanov wrote:
> Yes. I understood it when resulted a set example.
>> However, as I just said, people usually don't remove items from
>> just-sorted lists, they tend to iterate over them via 'for i in list:' .
>>   
> Such problem arises at creation of the list of timers.

For a list of timers/timeout events, a priority queue is often the best
data structure, which is already available through the heapq module.

Regards,
Martin


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