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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 10:28:46 -0500
Subject: Re: Sorting in reverse is not the same as sorting then reversing
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On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> wrote:
> [Stable sorting is] a general property of Python's sort algorithm.

And at times an extremely valuable property.

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