Guido rethinking removal of cmp from sort method
Paul Rubin
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Thu Mar 24 03:40:03 EDT 2011
Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> writes:
> The first half of the problem description -- "Elements are added at
> random" seems more suited to an in-place insertion sort method.
This is precisely what a priority queue is for. Insertions take
O(log n) time and there's very little space overhead in heapq's
list-based implementation.
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