Tim Sort and Tim Sort recursive are hybrid, stable sorting algorithm, derived from merge sort and insertion sort. Used in Java’s Arrays.sort(), Python’s sorted() and sort() functions. First sort a ...

As an FYI, nosferatu-man's and my solutions are better than S. Carton's, but require Python 2.4. The "key" parameter to sort/sorted does a "Decorate-Sort-Undecorate"[1] automatically, whereas the ...

It repeats until no input elements remain. Sorting is typically done in-place, by iterating up the array, growing the sorted list behind it. At each array-position, it checks the value there against ...