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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject: Re: Timsort in Cpython
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 22:56:44 -0400
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On 6/15/2013 4:21 PM, alphonse23@gmail.com wrote:

> Well. I'm going to have a ton of fun trying to make sense of this.

http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/default/Objects/listsort.txt
is pretty clear (to me) for most of the basics.


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy