Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpyt...@gmail.com> added the comment: Yet one mistake: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35014951/why-is-max-slower-than-sort
$ python3 -m timeit -s 'import random;a=list(range(10000));random.shuffle(a)' 'a.sort();a[-1]' Here the list is sorted at first iteration, and all following iterations measure the speed of sorting a sorted list. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue32039> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com