On 1/20/11 1:36 PM, Jake Biesinger wrote:
Thanks for the great suggestions!
On a related note, is there no way to efficiently sort a python array?
No.
x = array('f', xrange(10000000))
x.sort()
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AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)
/home/wbiesing/src/python-sort/<ipython console> in<module>()
AttributeError: 'array.array' object has no attribute 'sort'
type(sorted(x))
<type 'list'>
Seems like a common enough task, but no way to do it efficiently without
scipy/numpy.
It's not really common. The array module is mostly used for data accumulation
and interchange. Most people who need to compute things over
efficiently-implemented homogeneous arrays use numpy.
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