Python bisect

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Movie('Aliens', 1986, 'Cameron') ... ] # Find the first movie released after 1960 by_year = attrgetter('released') movies.sort(key=by_year) movies[bisect(movies, 1960, key=by_year)] Movie(name='The Birds', released=1963, director='Hitchcock') # Insert a movie while maintaining sort order romance = Movie('Love Story', 1970, 'Hiller') insort(movies, romance, key=by_year) pprint(movies) [Movie(name='The Birds', released=1963, director='Hitchcock'), Movie(name='Love Story', released=1970, director='Hiller'), Movie(name='Jaws', released=1975, director='Spielberg'), Movie(name='Aliens', released=1986, director='Cameron'), Movie(name='Titanic', released=1997, director='Cameron')] If the key function is expensive, it is possible to avoid repeated function calls by searching a list of precomputed keys to find the index of a record: data = [('red', 5), ('blue', 1), ('yellow', 8), ('black', 0)] data.sort(key=lambda r: r[1]) # Or use operator.itemgetter(1). keys = [r[1] for r in data] # Precompute a list of keys. data[bisect_left(keys, 0)] ('black', 0) data[bisect_left(keys, 1)] ('blue', 1) data[bisect_left(keys, 5)] ('red', 5) data[bisect_left(keys, 8)] ('yellow', 8) Table of Contents bisect — Array bisection algorithm Performance Notes Searching Sorted Lists Examples Previous topic heapq — Heap queue algorithm Next topic array — Efficient arrays of numeric values This page Report a bug Show source « Navigation index modules | next | previous | Python » 3.13.18 Documentation » The Python standard library » Data Types » bisect — Array bisection algorithm | Theme Auto Light Dark | © Copyright 2001-2026, Python Software Foundation. — bisect — Array bisection algorithm — Python 3.13.18 documentation (1997)

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bisect — Array bisection algorithm — Python 3.13.18 documentation (1997)

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