Timsort in Cpython

[alphonse23 at gmail.com]

sorry about that. I'm new to google groups. I'm trying to make sense of python's implementation of timsort through cpython: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/default/Objects/listobject.c

I was replying to Terry Jan Reedy
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> http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/default/Objects/listsort.txt
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> is pretty clear (to me) for most of the basics.


> Though, if anyone would be interested in helping me out further -- though by all means, I'm not lazy, I can figure it myself. But, I wanted to pass in variables into listsort and watch timsort work line by line in gdb. 
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> listsort(PyListObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds) 
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> I've never worked with Cpython source before, but it looks like PyObject is just some type of general strut.. I think anyway. How does python represent a list of ints in source? and what are the two second arguments for, assuming the first is the list strut. 
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On Sunday, June 16, 2013 6:08:50 AM UTC-7, mm0fmf wrote:
> Answer: The lost context.
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> Question: What makes top-posted replies harder to read than bottom-posted?
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> alphonse23 at gmail.com wrote:
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> > Yes I've read it. Very interesting read. There are other resources too online that make it very clear, for instance the wikipedia articles is pretty good.
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> > Though, if anyone would be interested in helping me out further -- though by all means, I'm not lazy, I can figure it myself. But, I wanted to pass in 
variables into listsort and watch timsort work line by line in gdb. 
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> > I've never worked with Cpython source before, but it looks like PyObject is just some type of general strut.. I think anyway. How does python represent a list of ints in source? and what are the two second arguments for, assuming the first is the list strut.
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> > On Saturday, June 15, 2013 12:44:01 PM UTC-7, alpho... at gmail.com wrote:
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> >> I'm currently trying to make sense of Python's Timsort function. From the wikipedia page I was told the algorithm is located somewhere here: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/default/Objects/listobject.c
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> >> So of all the functions in there, could somebody point to me which one is timsort?
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> >> Thanks, if anyone can help.
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> >> Alphonse23