Merging multiple sorted sequences.
Erik
python at lucidity.plus.com
Wed Apr 12 19:09:42 EDT 2017
On 12/04/17 23:44, Ian Kelly wrote:
> This might be okay since Timsort on an already-sorted list should be
> O(n). But there's not really any need to keep them sorted and I would
> just use "lowest = min(items, key=itemgetter(0))".
Sure (and this was my main worry). I had it in my head for some reason
that min() would return the smallest key, not the object (and hence I
wouldn't be able to know which sequence object to get the next value
from - sorting means it's always at index 0).
But of course, min() returns the outer object containing the key so I
don't need to sort them to know how to address the correct sequence object.
operator.itemgetter() probably helps a bit, too ;)
I've done all that and it works.
Thanks, E.
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