I haven't felt it, heapq feels natural to me for this use case. :-) I'm aware of the issue of frequent cancelled timers, but chose to wait and see rather than preemptively fix it (only so many hours in a day). IIRC pyftplib has a clever cleanup algorithm that we can easily add if that usage pattern becomes popular.
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org>: > > > Actually, the first step is publish it on PyPI, the second is to get a > > fair number of happy users there. The bar for getting something > > included into the stdlib is pretty high -- you need to demonstrate > > that there is a need *and* that having it as a 3rd party module is a > > problem. > > I hear you about the process. > > About the need part, I'm wondering if you haven't felt it in > implementing the timers for asyncio. I have had that need in several > network programming projects and have ended up using my AVL tree > implementation (C and Python). > > Well, time will tell if frequent canceled timers end up piling up the > heap queue. > > > Marko > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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