Introduction to Python Heapq Module

A simple introduction on how to use Python’s heapq module

Vijini Mallawaarachchi
Towards Data Science
4 min readMay 6, 2020

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A Heap is a special case of a binary tree where the parent nodes are compared to their children with their values and are arranged accordingly. If you have come across my previous article titled 8 Common Data Structures every Programmer must know that there are two types of heaps; min heap and max heap.

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