Commit 0ad679ff authored by Tim Peters's avatar Tim Peters

Document new heapreplace() function.

parent 6e0da82a
......@@ -52,6 +52,15 @@ heap invariant.
Transform list \var{x} into a heap, in-place, in linear time.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{heapreplace}{heap, item}
Pop and return the smallest item from the \var{heap}, and also push
the new \var{item}. The heap size doesn't change.
This is more efficient than \function{heappop()} followed
by \function{heappush()}, and can be more appropriate when using
a fixed-size heap. Note that the value returned may be larger
than \var{item}! That constrains reasonable uses of this routine.
\end{funcdesc}
Example of use:
\begin{verbatim}
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