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Old 02-22-2014
Sorting Python

i have written a code to get the following result but i think am missing something


Code:
def insert_switch(list):
    for i in range(len(list)-1,0) :
value =list[i]       
        for j in range(i,len(list)) :
            if (list[j-1]>list[j]) :
                value=list[j]
                list[j]=list[j-1]
                list[j-1]=value
                j=j+1
                i=i-1
else :
break

Expected result
basically sorting from right

Code:
[8 ,11 ,4 ,33][]
[8, 11, 4 ][33]
[8 ,11 ][4,33]
[8][4,11,33]
[][4,8,11,33]

I wrote in python but there is something wrong i did

Is there any perl or python code that would help?

Last edited by siya@; 02-23-2014 at 12:26 PM..
# 2  
Old 02-23-2014
This for i in range(len(list)-1,0) : isn't doing anything as you len(list)-1 is already greater than 0 try using a -1 increment like this:

Code:
    for i in range(len(list)-1,0,-1) :

Also, have you considered using list.sort()
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