[Numpy-discussion] String sort

[Francesc Altet]

A Friday 15 February 2008, Charles R Harris escrigué:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Francesc Altet <faltet at carabos.com> 
wrote:
> > Hi Chuck,
> >
> > I've given more testing to the new quicksort routines for strings
> > in the forthcoming NumPy.  I've run the indexing test units in
> > PyTables Pro (they stress the sorting routines a lot) against the
> > current version of NumPy in the repository, for the complete set of
> > quicksort, mergesort and heapsort of the new implementation, and
> > I'm happy to say to everything went very smoothly, i.e. more than
> > 1000 tests with different input arrays has passed flawlessly.  Good
> > job!
>
> Hi Francesc,
>
> Thanks for the thorough testing. It makes me feel much more
> comfortable this close to the release of 1.0.5.

You are welcome.  I forgot to mention that I tested out both direct 
(.sort()) and indirect (.argsort()) methods.

Cheers,

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