On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierr...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 11:57 AM, J. Mwebaze <jmweb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have several lists with approx 1172026 entries. I have been trying to > sort > > the records, but have failed.. I tried lists.sort() i also trired sorted > > python's inbuilt method. This has been running for weeks. > > Sorting 1172026 random floats takes about 1.5 seconds to do on my > machine. More complicated objects take more time, but usually not that > much more time. What exactly are you sorting? > > -- Devin > [ (datatime, int) ] * 1172026 -- *Mob UG: +256 (0) 70 1735800 | NL +31 (0) 6 852 841 38 | Gtalk: jmwebaze | skype: mwebazej | URL: www.astro.rug.nl/~jmwebaze /* Life runs on code */*
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