<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > no sort() is needed to calculate the median of a list. > you just need one temp var.
Of course. But for a short enough list, the builtin sort() method may be faster than an O(n) algorithm coded in Python. And .sort() is already present. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list