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dalke on Jan 28, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fast Non-Standard Data Structures for Python

Ever since Python 2.4, the heapq module has been written in C. It was only Python 2.3 which had the pure Python implementation.

I've used heapq for several of my projects, including one where I did extensive performance testing, and I haven't found it to be a problem.

z-factor on Jan 28, 2013 [–]

I want to add that I've been using heapq for scheduling in every piece of software as well and it's never been a problem even in heavily loaded projects.

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