[Tutor] Lists+sorting

[Pooja Bhalode]

Hi,

Yes, I tried sending the mail again in plain text.
But I think I understood the difference there in using built-in sort
function and writing the code without using that.

Thank you


On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 04/01/16 16:56, Pooja Bhalode wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I wanted to check if I can write the following program in this manner
> as
> > > well.
> > >
> >
> > Can you resend in plain text please?
> > Your post lost all its formatting so its hard to read
> > or comment on.
> >
> > > def linear_merge(list1, list2):
> > > result = []
> > > while len(list1) and len(list2):
> > > if list1[0] < list2[0]:
> > > result.append(list1.pop(0))
> > > else:
> > > result.append(list2.pop(0))
> > >
> > > # Now tack on what's left
> > >
> > > result.extend(list1)
> > > result.extend(list2)
> > > return result
> >
> > Like Alan said, send in plain text.  Also, give a test case and your
> results.  Your version uses the built in sort method.  The linear merge
> doesn't use that, so the writer's are trying to teach you something about
> sorting.
>
> > ...
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