445 sorted() returns a new sorted list, leaving the original list unaffected. list.sort() sorts the list in-place, mutating the list indices, and returns None (like all in-place operations). sorted() works on any …

Jun 8, 2012 · In Python 2.7, how does Python's built-in sorted function work - what algorithm does it use?

Jan 26, 2017 · There are a number of Python modules that provide dictionary implementations which automatically maintain the keys in sorted order. Consider the sortedcontainers module which is pure …

Other than doing list comprehensions of reversed list comprehension, is there a pythonic way to sort Counter by value? If so, it is faster than this: >>> from collections import Counter &...

Nov 20, 2010 · It appears you could use a list instead of a tuple. This becomes more important I think when you are grabbing attributes instead of 'magic indexes' of a list/tuple. In my case I wanted to sort …

Python has supported the key= for .sort since 2.4, that is year 2004, it does the Schwartzian transform within the sorting code, in C; thus this method is useful only on Pythons 2.0-2.3. all of which are more …

Aug 30, 2008 · What is the best way of creating an alphabetically sorted list in Python?

I saw some examples using built-in functions like sorted, sum etc. that use key=lambda. What does lambda mean here? How does it work? For the general computer science concept of a lambda, see …

Nov 12, 2019 · How to use sort () for set () values in Python? Asked 6 years, 1 month ago Modified 6 years, 1 month ago Viewed 17k times

Oct 31, 2009 · 28 If you're using the ordered set to maintain a sorted order, consider using a sorted set implementation from PyPI. The sortedcontainers module provides a SortedSet for just this purpose. …