sorting 1172026 entries

[J. Mwebaze]

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 11:57 AM, J. Mwebaze <jmwebaze at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have several lists with approx 1172026 entries. I have been trying to
> sort
> > the records, but have failed.. I tried lists.sort() i also trired sorted
> > python's inbuilt method. This has been running for weeks.
>
> Sorting 1172026 random floats takes about 1.5 seconds to do on my
> machine. More complicated objects take more time, but usually not that
> much more time. What exactly are you sorting?
>
> -- Devin
>

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