> On Sep 11, 2016, at 12:45 AM, Elliot Gorokhovsky <elgo8...@colorado.edu> > wrote: > > I am interested in making a non-trivial improvement to list.sort(), but > before I put in the work, I want to test the waters and see if this is > something the community would accept. Basically, I want to implement radix > sort for lists of strings. So list.sort() would detect if it is sorting a > list of strings (which is one of the more common things you sort in python) > and, if so, use in-place radix sort (see > https://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/HTML/americanFlagSort.html).
For those who are interested, here is a direct link to the PDF that describes the algorithm. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.22.6990&rep=rep1&type=pdf Raymond _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
