Timsort in Cpython

[sean.westfall at gmail.com]

On Sunday, June 16, 2013 1:16:02 PM UTC-7, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:15:11 -0700 (PDT), alphonse23 at gmail.com declaimed
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> the following:
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> >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
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> >
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> 	Since you are new to GoogleGroups, if you can, run away from it as fast
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> as possible. While material may look okay on their system, it is
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> practically trashed when getting out into the real world. (Paragraphs
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> either come in as long lines with no wrapping [Usenet/Email convention is
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> for 80 character lines, and to allow for > quotes original text should wrap
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> around 72-75], or they end up double-spacing stuff that comes in following
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> the 80 character line length (GG is treating hard end-of-line as a
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> paragraph marker, and on quoting, adding a blank line between these
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> "paragraphs")
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> 	Either subscribe to the mailing list (and use a real mail client rather
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> than web-mail) or use a news reader; if your ISP doesn't provide an NNTP
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> server carrying comp.lang.python, it is available from Gmane as
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> gmane.comp.python.general (the mailing list and comp.lang.python are cross
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> linked, and Gmane shows the mailing list as if it were a Usenet news group)
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> 	And just another comment: preference on the group is "trim quoted
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> material and comment below the quote (or interspersed with the quotes)"...
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> The style created with M$ Outlook (Outlook goes out of its way to make it
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> impossible to trim/intersperse -- it considers quoted material as a
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> photocopy attached to the back of a new letter) in which one comments at
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> the top of the quoted material, and never trims to relevant material is
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> frowned upon.
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Understood. I just subscribed to the news group, though I'm using gmail. hopefully it will work better than google groups.

I'll keep all the advice here in mind whenever I post.

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