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Heapsort is an efficient comparison-based sorting algorithm that divides an input into a sorted and an unsorted part and iteratively shrinks the unsorted part by extracting the largest element and moving that to the sorted part. Run time is O(n log n).

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Python 3 simple external sort with heapq

I've implemented a minimal external sort of text file using heapq python module. On the few tests I did it seems to works well, but I would like to have some advice to have a cleaner and faster code. …
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