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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/heapq.py | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/heapq.py b/Lib/heapq.py index 09f996a..9fb4e70 100644 --- a/Lib/heapq.py +++ b/Lib/heapq.py @@ -154,7 +154,9 @@ def heapreplace(heap, item): This is more efficient than heappop() followed by heappush(), and can be more appropriate when using a fixed-size heap. Note that the value returned may be larger than item! That constrains reasonable uses of - this routine. + this routine unless written as part of a larger expression: + + result = item <= heap[0] and item or heapreplace(heap, item) """ returnitem = heap[0] # raises appropriate IndexError if heap is empty heap[0] = item |