On 2019-01-31, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 1/31/2019 11:19 AM, Ian Clark wrote: >> text = "The best day of my life!" >> output = '' >> >> for i in text: >> if i == ' ': >> output +='\n' >> else: >> output += i >> >> print(output)
> But this is an awful, O(n*n) way to solve an inherently O(n) problem, How is it O(n^2)? It loops through the input sequence exactly once. That looks like O(n) to me. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Not SENSUOUS ... only at "FROLICSOME" ... and in gmail.com need of DENTAL WORK ... in PAIN!!! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list