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Diffstat (limited to 'numpy/core/fromnumeric.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/core/fromnumeric.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/core/fromnumeric.py b/numpy/core/fromnumeric.py index 7865dbf64..798a71395 100644 --- a/numpy/core/fromnumeric.py +++ b/numpy/core/fromnumeric.py @@ -895,13 +895,13 @@ def sort(a, axis=-1, kind='quicksort', order=None): worst case O(n*log(n)). 'stable' automatically choses the best stable sorting algorithm - for the data type being sorted. It is currently mapped to - merge sort. + for the data type being sorted. It is currently mapped to timsort. .. versionadded:: 1.17.0 Timsort is added for better performance on already or nearly sorted data. On random data timsort is almost identical to - mergesort. For details of timsort, refer to + mergesort. It is now used for stable sort while quicksort is still the + default sort if none is chosen. For details of timsort, refer to `CPython listsort.txt <https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.7/Objects/listsort.txt>`_. |