我还需要使用max-heap，我处理的是整数，所以我只是包装了我需要的heap中的两个方法，如下所示:

import heapq


def heappush(heap, item):
    return heapq.heappush(heap, -item)


def heappop(heap):
    return -heapq.heappop(heap)

然后，我只是分别用heappush()和heappop()替换了我的heapq.heappush()和heappop()调用。

如果你想用max heap得到最大的K元素，你可以做下面的技巧:

nums= [3,2,1,5,6,4]
k = 2  #k being the kth largest element you want to get
heapq.heapify(nums) 
temp = heapq.nlargest(k, nums)
return temp[-1]

扩展int类并重写__lt__是一种方法。

import queue
class MyInt(int):
    def __lt__(self, other):
        return self > other

def main():
    q = queue.PriorityQueue()
    q.put(MyInt(10))
    q.put(MyInt(5))
    q.put(MyInt(1))
    while not q.empty():
        print (q.get())


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

我创建了一个堆包装器，它将值颠倒以创建max-heap，还为min-heap创建了一个包装器类，以使库更像oop。这是要点。有三个班级;Heap(抽象类)，HeapMin和HeapMax。

方法:

isempty() -> bool; obvious
getroot() -> int; returns min/max
push() -> None; equivalent to heapq.heappush
pop() -> int; equivalent to heapq.heappop
view_min()/view_max() -> int; alias for getroot()
pushpop() -> int; equivalent to heapq.pushpop

最简单的方法是反转键的值并使用heapq。例如，将1000.0转换为-1000.0，将5.0转换为-5.0。

解决方案是当你在堆中存储你的值时对其求反，或者像这样反转你的对象比较:

import heapq

class MaxHeapObj(object):
  def __init__(self, val): self.val = val
  def __lt__(self, other): return self.val > other.val
  def __eq__(self, other): return self.val == other.val
  def __str__(self): return str(self.val)

max-heap的例子:

maxh = []
heapq.heappush(maxh, MaxHeapObj(x))
x = maxh[0].val  # fetch max value
x = heapq.heappop(maxh).val  # pop max value

但是您必须记住包装和打开您的值，这需要知道您正在处理的是最小堆还是最大堆。

MinHeap, MaxHeap类

为MinHeap和MaxHeap对象添加类可以简化代码:

class MinHeap(object):
  def __init__(self): self.h = []
  def heappush(self, x): heapq.heappush(self.h, x)
  def heappop(self): return heapq.heappop(self.h)
  def __getitem__(self, i): return self.h[i]
  def __len__(self): return len(self.h)

class MaxHeap(MinHeap):
  def heappush(self, x): heapq.heappush(self.h, MaxHeapObj(x))
  def heappop(self): return heapq.heappop(self.h).val
  def __getitem__(self, i): return self.h[i].val

使用示例:

minh = MinHeap()
maxh = MaxHeap()
# add some values
minh.heappush(12)
maxh.heappush(12)
minh.heappush(4)
maxh.heappush(4)
# fetch "top" values
print(minh[0], maxh[0])  # "4 12"
# fetch and remove "top" values
print(minh.heappop(), maxh.heappop())  # "4 12"