diff --git a/direct/src/heapq/Sources.pp b/direct/src/heapq/Sources.pp
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+// DIR_TYPE "metalib" indicates we are building a shared library that
+// consists mostly of references to other shared libraries.  Under
+// Windows, this directly produces a DLL (as opposed to the regular
+// src libraries, which don't produce anything but a pile of OBJ files
+// under Windows).
+
+#define DIR_TYPE metalib
+#define BUILDING_DLL BUILDING_DIRECT
+
+#begin metalib_target
+  #define TARGET heapq
+
+  #define SOURCES heapq.c
+#end metalib_target
+
diff --git a/direct/src/heapq/heapq.c b/direct/src/heapq/heapq.c
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+
+/* Note: This module can probably go away when we upgrade to Python 2.4.
+   Python 2.3 has a heapq implementation, but it is in Python. This is
+   reported to be about 20x faster. In 2.4 they reimplemented heapq in C so
+   it should be comparable to this. At this time though, Python 2.4 is
+   still in alpha.
+*/
+
+#include <Python.h>
+
+/* Prototypes */
+static PyObject * heappush(PyObject *self, PyObject *args);
+static PyObject * heappop(PyObject *self, PyObject *args);
+static PyObject * heapreplace(PyObject *self, PyObject *args);
+static PyObject * heapify(PyObject *self, PyObject *args);
+static int _siftdown(PyObject *list, int startpos, int pos);
+static int _siftup(PyObject *list, int pos);
+
+#ifdef _WIN32
+extern __declspec(dllexport) void initlibheapq(void);
+#else
+extern void initlibheapq();
+#endif
+
+static PyObject *
+heappush(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) {
+    int len;
+    PyObject *list = NULL;
+    PyObject *node = NULL;
+    
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args,"O!O",&PyList_Type,&list,&node))
+        return NULL;
+
+    len = PyList_Size(list);
+    if (PyList_Append(list,node))
+        return NULL;
+    
+    if (_siftdown(list,0,len))
+        return NULL;
+    
+    Py_INCREF(Py_None);
+    return Py_None;
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+heappop(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) {
+    PyObject *list = NULL;
+    PyObject *node = NULL;
+    PyObject *returnNode = NULL;
+    int len;
+    
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args,"O!",&PyList_Type,&list))
+        return NULL;
+
+    len = PyList_Size(list);
+    if (len == 0) {
+        /* Special-case most common failure cause */
+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IndexError, "pop from empty list");
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    node = PySequence_GetItem(list,-1);
+    PySequence_DelItem(list,-1);
+
+    len -= 1;
+    if (len > 0) {
+        returnNode = PySequence_GetItem(list,0);
+        PyList_SetItem(list,0,node);
+        if (_siftup(list,0))
+            return NULL;
+    } else {
+        returnNode = node;
+    }
+    
+    return returnNode;
+}
+
+static PyObject * 
+heapreplace(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) {
+    PyObject *list = NULL;
+    PyObject *node = NULL;
+    PyObject *returnNode = NULL;
+    int len;
+    
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args,"O!O",&PyList_Type,&list,&node))
+        return NULL;
+
+    len = PyList_Size(list);
+    if (len == 0) {
+        /* Special-case most common failure cause */
+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IndexError, "replace on an empty list");
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    returnNode = PySequence_GetItem(list,0);
+    PySequence_SetItem(list,0,node);
+    if (_siftup(list,0))
+        return NULL;
+
+    return returnNode;
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+heapify(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) {
+    int n, i;
+    PyObject *list;
+
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args,"O!",&PyList_Type,&list))
+        return NULL;
+    n = (PyList_Size(list)/2)-1;
+    
+    for (i=n;i>=0;i--) {
+        if (_siftup(list,i))
+            return NULL;
+    }
+
+    Py_INCREF(Py_None);
+    return Py_None;
+}
+
+static int
+_siftdown(PyObject *list, int startpos, int pos) {
+    PyObject *newitem, *parent;
+    int parentpos, cmp;
+
+    newitem = PySequence_GetItem(list,pos);
+    while (pos > startpos) {
+        parentpos = (pos - 1) >> 1;
+        parent = PyList_GetItem(list,parentpos);
+
+        cmp = PyObject_RichCompareBool(parent,newitem,Py_LE);
+        if (cmp > 0)
+            break;
+        else if (cmp < 0)
+            return -1;
+        Py_INCREF(parent);
+        PyList_SetItem(list,pos,parent);
+        pos = parentpos;
+    }
+    PyList_SetItem(list,pos,newitem);
+    return 0;
+}
+
+static int
+_siftup(PyObject *list, int pos) {
+    PyObject *newitem, *right, *child;
+    int endpos, rightpos, childpos;
+    int startpos = pos;
+    int cmp;
+    
+    endpos = PyList_Size(list);
+    newitem = PySequence_GetItem(list,pos);
+    
+    childpos = (2*pos)+1;
+    while (childpos < endpos) {
+        rightpos = childpos + 1;
+        child = PySequence_Fast_GET_ITEM(list,childpos);
+        if (rightpos < endpos) {
+            right = PySequence_Fast_GET_ITEM(list,rightpos);
+            cmp = PyObject_RichCompareBool(right,child,Py_LE);
+            if (cmp > 0)
+                childpos = rightpos;
+            else if (cmp < 0)
+                return -1;
+        }
+        child = PySequence_GetItem(list,childpos);
+        PyList_SetItem(list,pos,child);
+        pos = childpos;
+        childpos = (2*pos)+1;
+    }
+    PyList_SetItem(list,pos,newitem);
+
+    return _siftdown(list,startpos,pos);
+}
+
+static PyMethodDef heapqcMethods[] = {
+    {"heappush",heappush,METH_VARARGS},
+    {"heappop",heappop,METH_VARARGS},
+    {"heapreplace",heapreplace,METH_VARARGS},
+    {"heapify",heapify,METH_VARARGS},
+    {NULL, NULL} /* Sentinel */
+};
+
+void initlibheapq(void) {
+    (void) Py_InitModule("libheapq", heapqcMethods);
+};
+
+