我实现了一个最大堆版本的heapq，并将它提交给PyPI。(对heapq模块CPython代码的改动很小。)

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/heapq_max/

https://github.com/he-zhe/heapq_max

安装

pip install heapq_max

使用

dr:与heapq模块相同，只是所有函数都增加了' _max '。

heap_max = []                           # creates an empty heap
heappush_max(heap_max, item)            # pushes a new item on the heap
item = heappop_max(heap_max)            # pops the largest item from the heap
item = heap_max[0]                      # largest item on the heap without popping it
heapify_max(x)                          # transforms list into a heap, in-place, in linear time
item = heapreplace_max(heap_max, item)  # pops and returns largest item, and
                                    # adds new item; the heap size is unchanged

如果插入的键具有可比性但不像int型，则可能重写它们上的比较操作符(即<=变成>，>变成<=)。否则，您可以重写heapq。heapq模块中的_siftup(最后都是Python代码)。

你可以使用

import heapq
listForTree = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]    
heapq.heapify(listForTree)             # for a min heap
heapq._heapify_max(listForTree)        # for a maxheap!!

如果你想要弹出元素，使用:

heapq.heappop(minheap)      # pop from minheap
heapq._heappop_max(maxheap) # pop from maxheap

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()

允许您选择任意数量的最大或最小的项目

import heapq
heap = [23, 7, -4, 18, 23, 42, 37, 2, 8, 2, 23, 7, -4, 18, 23, 42, 37, 2]
heapq.heapify(heap)
print(heapq.nlargest(3, heap))  # [42, 42, 37]
print(heapq.nsmallest(3, heap)) # [-4, -4, 2]