[issue42240] Add Maxheap version of a heappush into heapq module

Matteo Dell'Amico added the comment: Personally, I'd find a maxheap in the standard library helpful, and a quick Google search tells me I'm not alone. I generally have to deal with numeric values, so I have these choices: - ugly code (e.g., `minus_distance, elem = heappop(heap)`, `distance =

[issue42240] Add Maxheap version of a heappush into heapq module

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Only the minheap is in the public API. The maxheap functions are only supposed to be used internally. Thank you for the suggestion, but I think we should decline. -- resolution: -> rejected stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___

[issue42240] Add Maxheap version of a heappush into heapq module

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[issue42240] Add Maxheap version of a heappush into heapq module

New submission from Rudresh Veerkhare : Main functions required to implement Heap data structure are: function heappush - to push an element in Heap function heappop - to pop an element from Heap for implementing Minheap this functions are present in the module as : heappush - for adding elem