Please use Why do these list operations (methods) return None, rather than the resulting list? to close questions where OP has inadvertently assigned the result of .sort(), rather than using sorted or a …

As the title says, I was interested in comparing list.sort () vs sorted (list). The above snippet showed something interesting that, python's sort function behaves very well for already sorted data.

The sort version operates on the list in-place, but sorted makes a copy of the list. When the actual sorting is so easy (Timsort detects that the whole list is one big backwards run and reverses it), the …

Apr 29, 2016 · a = [2,1,3]; b = sorted(a); //a possui o valor [2,1,3] e b possui o valor [1,2,3] Logo, não acredito que um seja mais direto que o outro, simplesmente depende de como você vai aplicar a …

Jan 21, 2022 · The difference is that sorted can be applied to any iterable, be it a list or an immutable tuple, a set or even a generator and will produce a list. On the other hand, sort is a method provided …

Jul 21, 2020 · I was trying to grasp my head around the difference between .sort () and sorted () and their reverse in python but I don't seem to get any. Any help?

Jan 21, 2013 · I have a list of lists and I am sorting them using the following data=sorted(data, key=itemgetter(0)) Was wondering what is the runtime complexity of this python function?

Apr 2, 2012 · The other respondents are correct that the difference has to do with sort stability which preserves the order of equal keys. And also sorted () returning a list while reversed () returns an iterator.

Jan 26, 2016 · python -m timeit -s 'import random;a=range(100000);random.shuffle(a)' 'sorted(a)[-1]' then the sort happens on every timing loop and you can see that the time for sorting an array is …

Jun 8, 2012 · Timsort was Python's standard sorting algorithm from version 2.3 to version 3.10. It is now also used to sort arrays in Java SE 7, and on the Android platform. Since 3.11, Python uses …