Bug in timsort!?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 25/02/2015 17:22, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 17:04:10 +0100, Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de>
> wrote:
>>
>> These guys found a bug that is subtler than what most of us have dealt with
>> in a widely used piece of code originally developed by one of the smarter
>> members of the python "community".
>>
>> I bow my head to them and say thank you.
>
> And also presented a solution.
>
> Thank you for a little of sanity and common sense in this discussion.
> TYhe levcel of smugness by some of the posters surely can't be a
> representation of the python community.
>

I don't believe that any technical community with exactly 4,750 open 
issues on its bug tracker regards itself as smug.

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Mark Lawrence