WARNING: This is a work in progress. Not everything stated here is true.
PriorityDict is an Apache2 licensed implementation of a dictionary which maintains key-value pairs in value sort order.
- Pure-Python
- Fast (depends on sortedcontainers module)
- Fully documented
- 100% test coverage
- Hours of stress testing
- Feature-rich (e.g. get the five largest keys in a priority dict: d.iloc[-5:])
- Developed on Python 2.7
- Tested on Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4
Installing PriorityDict is simple with pip:
> pip install prioritydictYou can access documentation in the interpreter with Python's built-in help function:
>>> from prioritydict import PriorityDict
>>> help(PriorityDict)Complete documentation including performance comparisons is available at http://www.grantjenks.com/docs/prioritydict/ .
Collaborators are welcome!
- Check for open issues or open a fresh issue to start a discussion around a bug. There is a Contributor Friendly tag for issues that should be used by people who are not very familiar with the codebase yet.
- Fork the repository on GitHub and start making your changes to a new branch.
- Write a test which shows that the bug was fixed.
- Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and published. :)
Copyright 2014 Grant Jenks
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