Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
There isn't universal agreement on whether it should be sift up or sift down.
One point of view for sift down is that the datum is moving downward. The
other point of view is that the datum is stationary which the rest of the heap
moves downward (like si
New submission from Yomguithereal :
Hello Python team,
I might be hallucinating but I am under the impression that the `heapq` module
uses reverse naming.
What I mean is that it seems to me that the _siftup method should actually be
named _siftdown and, the other way around, _siftdown should
