[issue7915] A lists which list.sort seems to leave out of order.

2010-02-11 Thread Alex Coventry
Alex Coventry added the comment: Ah, I guess I *was* on crack. Thanks for the explanation. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-

[issue7915] A lists which list.sort seems to leave out of order.

2010-02-11 Thread Ezio Melotti
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[issue7915] A lists which list.sort seems to leave out of order.

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Wouters
Thomas Wouters added the comment: You have a nan in your list of tuples, which screws up the sorting. After the first sort, elements 580395-7 are: (0.99257340581672904, 551095), (nan, 551371), (6.6494600485570754e-14, 551526), -- nosy: +twouters resolution: -> invalid status: open -

[issue7915] A lists which list.sort seems to leave out of order.

2010-02-11 Thread Alex Coventry
Alex Coventry added the comment: Oh, I guess I could make it a gzipped text file. Hang on. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-

[issue7915] A lists which list.sort seems to leave out of order.

2010-02-11 Thread Alex Coventry
Alex Coventry added the comment: No. It's 10M, gzipped. It's constructed from genome-wide association data, which is also huge, intrinsically complex, and protected by rules regarding research on humans. If the bug tracker won't take it do I have any other options? -- __

[issue7915] A lists which list.sort seems to leave out of order.

2010-02-11 Thread Ezio Melotti
Changes by Ezio Melotti : Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file16216/list.pickle.gz ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing lis

[issue7915] A lists which list.sort seems to leave out of order.

2010-02-11 Thread Ezio Melotti
Ezio Melotti added the comment: Could you provide the list in another format (e.g. in a plain .py script or as a .txt file)? -- nosy: +ezio.melotti priority: -> normal stage: -> test needed versions: -Python 2.5 ___ Python tracker

[issue7915] A lists which list.sort seems to leave out of order.

2010-02-11 Thread Alex Coventry
New submission from Alex Coventry : I feel like I must be on crack, here. I apologize if so. English version: sorting this long list leaves in place element 580395, which is less than element 0. Restricting to a list of just those two elements, sorting does what I'd expect. met% python2.6