Efficient python 2-d arrays?

[Jake Biesinger]

> Thanks for the great suggestions!

On a related note, is there no way to efficiently sort a python array?


>>> x = array('f', xrange(10000000))
>>> x.sort()
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AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)

/home/wbiesing/src/python-sort/<ipython console> in <module>()

AttributeError: 'array.array' object has no attribute 'sort'

>>> type(sorted(x))
<type 'list'>

Seems like a common enough task, but no way to do it efficiently without scipy/numpy.