here is another solution
class MergeSort(object):
def _merge(self,left, right):
nl = len(left)
nr = len(right)
result = [0]*(nl+nr)
i=0
j=0
for k in range(len(result)):
if nl>i and nr>j:
if left[i] <= right[j]:
result[k]=left[i]
i+=1
else:
result[k]=right[j]
j+=1
elif nl==i:
result[k] = right[j]
j+=1
else: #nr>j:
result[k] = left[i]
i+=1
return result
def sort(self,arr):
n = len(arr)
if n<=1:
return arr
left = self.sort(arr[:n/2])
right = self.sort(arr[n/2:] )
return self._merge(left, right)
def main():
import random
a= range(100000)
random.shuffle(a)
mr_clss = MergeSort()
result = mr_clss.sort(a)
#print result
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
and here is run time for list with 100000 elements:
real 0m1.073s
user 0m1.053s
sys 0m0.017s