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Re: Drowning in a teacup?

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Michael Selik wrote:

>> > I need to scan a list of strings. If one of the elements matches the
>> > beginning of a search keyword, that element needs to snap to the front
>> > of the list.
>>
>> I know this post regards the function passing, but, on you specific
>> problem,
>> can't you just ... sort the list with a custom key?
>
> If the number of matches is small relative to the size of the list, I'd
> expect the sort would be slower than most of the other suggestions.

umm... I take the liberty to set up a little test

    $ cat test_sort_prefix.py
    #!/usr/bin/env python3

    from sys import argv
    from timeit import timeit


    def sort_in_place(l):
        def key(e):
            return not e.startswith('yes')
        l.sort(key=key)


    def original_solution(mylist):
        for i in range(len(mylist)):
            if(mylist[i].startswith('yes')):
                mylist[:] = [mylist[i]] + mylist[:i] + mylist[i+1:]


    def main():
        if argv[1] == 'sort_in_place':
            f = sort_in_place
        elif argv[1] == 'original_solution':
            f = original_solution
        else:
            raise Exception()

        nomatches = int(argv[2])
        matches = int(argv[3])

        l = ["no_" for _ in range(nomatches)] + ["yes_" for _ in 
range(matches)]

        print(timeit("f(l)", number=100, globals={"f": f, "l": l}))

    if __name__ == '__main__':
        main()
    $ ./test_sort_prefix.py sort_in_place 1000000 3
    33.260575089996564
    $ ./test_sort_prefix.py original_solution 1000000 3
    35.93009542999789
    $


in my tests there is no sensible difference between the two solutions... and 
the number of matches is risible :)

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By ZeD

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Drowning in a teacup? Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> - 2016-04-01 16:27 -0400
  Re: Drowning in a teacup? Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> - 2016-04-01 20:39 +0000
    Re: Drowning in a teacup? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 14:52 -0600
  Re: Drowning in a teacup? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-04-01 21:45 +0100
  Re: Drowning in a teacup? Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 20:46 +0000
  Re: Drowning in a teacup? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-04-02 09:46 +1100
  Re: Drowning in a teacup? Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> - 2016-04-02 00:03 -0400
  Re: Drowning in a teacup? Vito De Tullio <vito.detullio@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 07:45 +0200
  Re: Drowning in a teacup? Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 05:51 +0000
  Re: Drowning in a teacup? Vito De Tullio <vito.detullio@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 08:26 +0200
  Re: Drowning in a teacup? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-04-02 12:31 +0200
  Re: Drowning in a teacup? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-04-02 12:53 +0100
  Re: Drowning in a teacup? Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 14:36 +0000
  Re: Drowning in a teacup? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2016-04-02 12:28 -0700
    Re: Drowning in a teacup? Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-04-02 15:54 -0400
      Re: Drowning in a teacup? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-04-03 12:33 +1000
    Re: Drowning in a teacup? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2016-04-02 16:15 -0700
    Re: Drowning in a teacup? Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-04-02 19:19 -0400

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