Why does Python not have any data structures that store data in sorted order?
25th June 2013
My answer to Why does Python not have any data structures that store data in sorted order? on Quora
The bisect module provides functions for achieving this using a python list as the underlying data structure: http://docs.python.org/2/library...
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