Python Mystery Theatre -- Episode 3: Extend this
Raymond Hettinger
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Tue Jul 22 11:47:32 EDT 2003
[Steven Taschuk]
> > ACT VI -----------------------------------------
> > print "What is the technical name for this algorithm or transformation?"
> [...]
>
> Heh. Nice one.
>
> The technical name is "the identity transformation".
Ding ding! We have a winner.
Others thought the i,j swap was suspicious but did
not put the finger on left-to-right assignment undermining
the whole selection sort to make it do nothing at all.
Raymond Hettinger
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