🔒 Sleepsort

[nocturne blaze]

I am done with my sleepsort code, it should give every number in the list the time it has to sleep and the first to wake up should be moved in the list. but is there a way to make my code look simpler:

import threading
import time

unsortet_array = [5, 1, 7, 3, 10]
sortet_array = []

print('Here is the unsorted array:', unsortet_array)

def first_element():
time.sleep(unsortet_array[0])
sortet_array.append(unsortet_array[0])

def second_element():
time.sleep(unsortet_array[1])
sortet_array.append(unsortet_array[1])

def third_element():
time.sleep(unsortet_array[2])
sortet_array.append(unsortet_array[2])

def fourth_element():
time.sleep(unsortet_array[3])
sortet_array.append(unsortet_array[3])

def fifth_element():
time.sleep(unsortet_array[4])
sortet_array.append(unsortet_array[4])

first = threading.Thread(target=first_element)
first.start()
second = threading.Thread(target=second_element)
second.start()
third = threading.Thread(target=third_element)
third.start()
fourth = threading.Thread(target=fourth_element)
fourth.start()
fifth = threading.Thread(target=fifth_element)
fifth.start()

first.join()
second.join()
third.join()
fourth.join()
fifth.join()

print("Here is the sortet array:", sortet_array)

[subtle dove]

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[gray shell]

yes -- instead of having many functions, with names like "first_element", "second_element" &c; have just a single function

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[nocturne blaze]

thanks

[simple barn]

I'd be tempted to use a barrier before the sleep

[nocturne blaze]

idk what else I can do this is as far as I have come

#bettersleepsort

import threading
import time

unsortet_array = [5, 1, 7, 3, 10]
sortet_array = []

print('Here is the unsorted array:', unsortet_array)

def sleepsort():
for i in range(len(unsortet_array)):
time.sleep(unsortet_array[i])
sortet_array.append(unsortet_array[i])

return

sleepsort()

Liste = threading.Thread(target = )
Liste.start()

Liste.join()

print('done')

idk how to thread that list, it just keeps counting from the left to right and not all elements at the same time

[gray shell]

you want a thread for each element

[nocturne blaze]

yeah but how am I supposed to do that?

[gray shell]

well, I posted an example.

[simple barn]

Thread takes a target and args in the constructor, you can pass the element that needs sorting in the args tuple

[nocturne blaze]

that is the answer I needed thank

[simple barn]

You can also make a target with the args bound using functools.partial, or a closure

Eg defining a function in a function

[tawny plank]

Careful. This may take a long time with larger values. Also, there is a possibility of getting erroneous results if you use input values that are close together. For example, the input [1.0001, 5, 1, 7, 3, 10, 0.9999] may result in the 1.0001 and the 0.9999 being incorrectly placed.

[subtle dove]

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