Q: listsort and dictsort - official equivalents?

Gabriel Genellina gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar
Tue Jun 19 23:05:03 EDT 2007


En Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:57:30 -0300, BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne at gmail.com>  
escribió:

> It's not true that the sort must complete (or that the whole file must
> be read for that matter), Python has cool generators which makes the
> above possible.

That's not possible, the input must be read completely before sorted() can  
output anything. Suppose the minimum element is at the end - until you  
read it, you can't output the very first sorted element.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina




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