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So for those of us who aren’t hanging on every update in the Python universe, what is the default sort in Python now? All I recall is that Timsort got dethroned

So for those of us who aren’t hanging on every update in the Python universe, what is the default sort in Python now? All I recall is that Timsort got dethroned and the author seems to be behaving like it’s some big secret to be kept from the plebs. Edit: all the way at the bottom of page 6: timsort+powersort

vanderZwan 2y ago
Powersort is pretty neat, here's a blog post with links to talks about it by one of the authors: https://www.wild-inter.net/posts/powersort-in-python-3.11 https://www.wild-inter.net/posts/powersort-in-python-3.11