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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 01:25:44 +1100
Subject: Porting the 2-3 heap data-structure library from C to Python
From: Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6@gmail.com>
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I am planning to port the 2-3 heap data-structure as described by
Professor Tadao Takaoka in Theory of 2-3 Heaps published in 1999 and
available in PDF:
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/tad.takaoka/2-3heaps.pdf

The source-code used has been made available:
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/research/RG/alg/ttheap.h
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/research/RG/alg/ttheap.c

I plan on wrapping it in a class.

This tutorial I used to just test out calling C within Python
(http://richizo.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/calling-c-functions-inside-python/)
and it seems to work, but this might not be the recommended method.

Any best practices for how best to wrap the 2-3 heap data-structure
from C to Python?

Thanks for all suggestions,

Alec Taylor