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On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 2:44 PM,  <alphonse23@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm currently trying to make sense of Python's Timsort function. From the wikipedia page I was told the algorithm is located somewhere here: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/default/Objects/listobject.c
>
> So of all the functions in there, could somebody point to me which one is timsort?
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> Thanks, if anyone can help.
> Alphonse23

Actually, it looks to me like it's several of them, but the main
function is here:
http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/default/Objects/listobject.c#l1902.

HTH,

Zach