Perhaps not. Consider [Tushar Sadhwani] who wanted to create a classic C-style for loop inside of Python. He did it, and the journey is perhaps more interesting than the result.

Python isn’t going to win any speed contests in the filesystem space, but that isn’t really the point. Using this technology opens up a huge opportunity for new ways of accessing data.

Sorting a list in Python is simple, and you have two options: In-place: Modifies the list. Out-of-place: Returns a new list and doesn't modify the original list. The sort method is in-place, and it ...