Project Summary
SortedContainers is an Apache2 Licensed containers library, written in pure-Python, and fast as C-extensions.
# Features
Pure-Python
Fully documented
Benchmark comparison (alternatives, runtimes, load-factors)
100% test coverage
Hours of stress testing
Performance matters (often faster than C implementations)
Compatible API (nearly identical to popular blist and rbtree modules)
Feature-rich (e.g. get the five largest keys in a sorted dict: d.iloc[-5:])
Pragmatic design (e.g. SortedSet is a Python set with a SortedList index)
Developed on Python 2.7
Tested on CPython 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and PyPy 2.2+, PyPy3 2.3.1+
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took an estimated 2 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in January, 2013
ending with its most recent commit over 1 year ago
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Apache License 2.0
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