heapq.py

>>> import heapq
>>> from random import randint

>>> my_heap = []

>>> for _ in xrange(20):
>>>     heapq.heappush(my_heap, randint(0, 3000))

>>> print my_heap
[134, 541, 156, 895, 706, 1700, 427, 2049, 1108, 1092, 1895, 2807, 2469, 811, 717, 2962, 2992, 2356, 1935, 2834]

>>> print heapq.heappop(my_heap)
134
>>> print heapq.heappop(my_heap)
156
>>> print heapq.heappop(my_heap)
427