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Tagged with python-2.x sorting
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Class for sorting pool balls
I have written this code for fun. I'd like to hear your suggestions about how to make it more compact and pythonic.
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Pythonic quicksort algorithm
Is my implementation of quicksort efficient, in-place, pythonic ?
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Out of order class resequencer
I got bored recently and wrote a tool to re-order out of order classes in Python files. This can occur with some auto-generation code tools for databases and the like; these files can sometimes be ...
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Multiprocess Bogosort
I only program by hobby, and I'm trying to improve with Python, so along with practicing coding I decided to venture into multiprocessing. This is a command line and will sort a variable number of ...
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Sorting software version list using Python 2.7 (no modules)
I am participating in a challenge and one of the challenges was to write a script to sort a list of software versions (ex: 1.0, 1.3.2, 12, 1.3.0). Here is the my solution:
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Checking whether a list is sorted, ascending or descending
What is the best way to conditionally use an operator? All 3 methods seemed acceptable to me, and the last 2 better.
If you're curious: I've got a list which is unsorted, and many other lists which ...
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Checking to see if array can be sorted using only one operation
I'm doing this HackerRank problem, which asks whether an array of up to 100000 integers can be sorted in ascending order by exactly one of the following:
swapping two elements
reversing a subarray
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Sorting a list of names by greatest lexicographical order
This is a puzzle I found online that I have been trying to optimize and make the best version. I've tested it and it works great but I'm curious how it can be improved in any way.
Instructions:
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Bubble Sorting Algorithm
I made a simple Python program which takes a list of unique numbers and orders them from smallest to greatest. The algorithm (which is actually quite similar to bubble sort) works like this:
Take the ...
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Sorting two lists
This sorts two lists (a, b) according to aand returns two sorted lists separately:
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Custom sorting a list of objects efficiently
I'm trying to make sorting of objects in my program as fast as possible. I know that sorting with a cmp function is deprecated in python 3.x and that using keys is faster, but I'm not sure how to get ...
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Sorting by checking 2 distance away elements in a list, and check the method's accuracy
This code works as follows :
It accepts number of test case T. For each test case, it accepts length of sequence of integers N and the sequence (or list) itself L.
The goal is to sort the list by ...
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Sort array by low, medium and high
I'm working on a problem to sort array by low, medium and high -- in-place tweak original array. I'm looking for advice, especially any algorithm implementation efficiency. My current bottleneck of ...
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Find valid triples for a sorted list of integers (part 2)
Have some ideas to improve code from this discussion (Find valid triples for a sorted list of integers) and post new code in a new post.
The new idea is to try to remember where low bound searched ...
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Binary search function
I have written this function to perform a binary search on an array, given begin/end indices and a value to look for in the supplied array:
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Bubble sort a list of integers for a number of iterations
I wrote a program for this problem, but it stopped because it took too much time. Any tips?
The Problem:
Bubble sort is the simplest algorithm for elements sorting. At each iteration we sequentially ...
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Python script for sorting a huge log file based on timestamps
I want to write a python script to sort a huge file, say 2 GB in size, which contains logs in the following format -
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Most efficient way to find spatial order from a list of tuples (Python)
I have a circle-growth algorithm (line-growth with closed links) where new points are added between existing points at each iteration.
The linkage information of each point is stored as a tuple in a ...
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Compare function for lists
I need to sort a list of lists. The following is a compare function:
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Better sorting speed
import sys
x=int(sys.stdin.readline())
lst = [int(sys.stdin.readline()) for i in xrange(x)]
lst.sort()
print lst
How can I make this code faster for large ...
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