On Jul 31, 10:44 am, Joshua Bronson <jabron...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Say I want to maintain a heap of (x, y) pairs sorted only by
> first coordinate. Without being able to pass key=itemgetter(0), won't
> heapifying a list of such pairs unnecessarily compare both
> coordinates?

It will compare the second value only if the first values are equal.
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