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item. Such algorithms normally end up running in quadratic time;
using popitem() they can usually be made to run in linear time.
+
+Standard library
+
+- The bisect module has new functions bisect_left, insort_left,
+ bisect_right and insort_right. The old names bisect and insort
+ are now aliases for bisect_right and insort_right. XXX_right
+ and XXX_left methods differ in what happens when the new element
+ compares equal to one or more elements already in the list: the
+ XXX_left methods insert to the left, the XXX_right methods to the
+ right.
+
+
Windows changes
- select module: By default under Windows, a select() call