On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:22:00 -0600 Nick Timkovich <prometheus...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Functions are great. I'm a big fan of functions. However, > > 1. Once there are several that all have the same thing as an argument: > thing_operation1(thing, arg), thing_operation2(thing, arg)...it's about > time to bind them together. > 2. And especially for the heap "soft-datatype": once it's heapified, > naively modifying it with other methods will ruin the heap invariant. **The > actual list you pass around can't be treated as a list.**
A third reason: documentation and discoverability. If I type help(some_heapified_list) at the prompt, I get the usual documentation for list methods, not the documentation of heapq functions... Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
