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Re: Best way to insert sorted in a list

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Chris Torek wrote:
> Appending to the list is much faster, and if you are going to
> dump a set of new items in, you can do that with:
> 
>     # wrong way:
>     # for item in large_list:
>     #    a.append(item)
>     # right way, but fundamentally still the same cost (constant
>     # factor is much smaller due to built-in append())
>     a.append(large_list)
          ^- should be a.extend(large_list)

~Ethan~

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Best way to insert sorted in a list SherjilOzair <sherjilozair@gmail.com> - 2011-06-17 13:53 -0700
  Re: Best way to insert sorted in a list Shashank Singh <shashank.sunny.singh@gmail.com> - 2011-06-18 02:32 +0530
  Re: Best way to insert sorted in a list Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-17 14:31 -0700
  Re: Best way to insert sorted in a list Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-06-17 15:23 -0600
  Re: Best way to insert sorted in a list Chris Torek <nospam@torek.net> - 2011-06-17 21:48 +0000
    Re: Best way to insert sorted in a list Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-17 15:24 -0700
    Re: Best way to insert sorted in a list Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-06-17 17:33 -0600
      Re: Best way to insert sorted in a list Chris Torek <nospam@torek.net> - 2011-06-18 00:46 +0000
  Re: Best way to insert sorted in a list Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-18 02:27 +0000
  Re: Best way to insert sorted in a list Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-06-17 21:21 -0700
  Re: Best way to insert sorted in a list Vito De Tullio <vito.detullio@gmail.com> - 2011-06-19 16:21 +0200

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