Hi Erden, thanks for your email

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 22:02, Erden Oktay oktay_erden@wheatonma.edu wrote:

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import bisect

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scores = [(100, 'perl'), (200, 'tcl'), (400, 'lua'), (500, 'python')] bisect.insort(scores, (300, 'ruby')) scores

[(100, 'perl'), (200, 'tcl'), (300, 'ruby'), (400, 'lua'), (500, 'python')]

I thought instead of insort you meant insert.

I see why you think it's a typo, but bisect module has a 'insort()' method for real :) it inserts an element in an already sorted sequence, keeping it sorted. you can refer for a more detailed description to the online doc[1].

[1] http://docs.python.org/library/bisect.html#bisect.insort

Cheers,