University of Liverpool computer scientists have solved a long-standing algorithmic puzzle to speed up a core building block of Python, the most popular programming language and the foundation of ...

To create a new, sorted list, use the sorted() function on the old list: new_list = sorted(old_list) This will sort the contents of the list using Python’s default sorting methods.

Parameters: sorted takes three parameters from which two are optional. Iterable: sequence (list, tuple, string) or collection (dictionary, set, frozenset) or any other iterator that needs to be sorted ...

Native python code is not very good at performing these types of optimizations, and so the built-in function is written in the C programming language. (You can find the source code of the built-in ...