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The Punch Line...
Of course, all this was just a coding exercise. There’s really no reason to code min or max functions, because both are built-ins in Python! We met them briefly in Chapter 5 in conjunction with numeric tools, and again in Chapter 14 when exploring iteration contexts. The built-in versions work almost exactly like ours, but they’re coded in C for optimal speed and accept either a single iterable or multiple arguments. Still, though it’s superfluous in this context, the general coding pattern we used here might be useful in other scenarios.
[41] Actually, this is fairly complicated. The Python sort routine is coded in C and uses a highly optimized algorithm that attempts to take advantage of partial ordering in the items to be sorted. It’s named “timsort” after Tim Peters, its creator, and in its documentation it claims to have “supernatural performance” at times (pretty good, for a sort!). Still, sorting is an inherently exponential operation (it must chop up the sequence and put it back together many times), and the other versions simply perform one linear left-to-right scan. The net effect is that sorting is quicker if the arguments are partially ordered, but is likely to be slower otherwise. Even so, Python performance can change over time, and the fact that sorting is implemented in the C language can help greatly; for an exact analysis, you should time the alternatives with the time or timeit modules we’ll meet in Chapter 20.
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