Insertion Sort In Python Explained (With Example And Code)

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  • @Sussy_Neko
    @Sussy_Neko 3 года назад +79

    Absolutely beautiful ,a simple and concise explanation ,Wish I had teachers like you.

  • @troyke
    @troyke Год назад +16

    OMG! I've only watched a few mins of your video and I can't believe what a great job you did on the explanation and the beauty, pace, and clarity of the presentation! Top-notch! You really need to continue being a Tech Trainer either FT or on the side, as you are VERY GOOD at it!

  • @deshawnbattle7510
    @deshawnbattle7510 2 года назад +5

    I’m reading a book for school and the problem had 2x as much code wayyyyy harder than it had to be… thanks man!!

  • @saralee548
    @saralee548 2 года назад +5

    ive been using your channel to study for coding interviews, most simple explanations out there, ty!

  • @heyitsKim1912
    @heyitsKim1912 Год назад +1

    I found this coding example is the easiest yet most efficient one out there! Thank you Felix!

  • @nishantmehra7031
    @nishantmehra7031 3 года назад +6

    You made this look so easy dude ... thanks a lot

  • @icchigoat
    @icchigoat 3 года назад +3

    I LOVE YOU SO MUCH MAN YOU'RE A LIFESAVER WISH ME LUCK I HAVE AN EXAM ON TUESDAY

  • @WriterRomanSavin
    @WriterRomanSavin Год назад +1

    A perfect explanation and elegant coding solution

  • @starlight_garden
    @starlight_garden Год назад +4

    Timestamps/suggested chapters:
    0:00 Intro
    0:08 Overview
    0:31 Example
    3:21 Code
    7:44 Outro

  • @tejaswini07j
    @tejaswini07j Год назад

    I have been running away from this Sorting and Searching since 2011(Pre University Years), I am in the 6th year of my career and TIL "SORTING", which is simple and non-scary.
    Thank you!

  • @glockncheese
    @glockncheese 3 года назад +2

    This is literally a lifesaver. Thank u.

  • @cigxhang486
    @cigxhang486 2 года назад

    only till I watched this video did I know that there are two loops, one to the right and one to the left. Thank you for saving my life

  • @jonassteinberg3779
    @jonassteinberg3779 9 месяцев назад +1

    aside from readability, which in this case I don't think is a win, you don't need to even define j because if you think about it j is just i, so the code could be written as:
    def iterative_insertion_sort(arr: list):
    for i in range(1, len(arr)):
    while arr[i-1] > arr[i] and i > 0:
    arr[i-1], arr[i] = arr[i], arr[i-1]
    i -= 1
    This code block passes all my unit tests of which I have 14. I'll list them below. One thing Felix does which I haven't seen anyone else do is instead of comparing right to left he actually compares left to right. I guess it doesn't matter. My mind makes easier send of things as right to left, especially since you're counting down *to the left* in terms of comparisons. Anyway...no need for j.
    from iterative_insertion_sort import iterative_insertion_sort
    import pytest
    def test_alternating_zeroes_and_ones():
    arr = [0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1]
    assert iterative_insertion_sort(arr) == sorted(arr)
    def test_increasing_decreasing():
    arr = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1]
    assert iterative_insertion_sort(arr) == sorted(arr)
    def test_decreasing_increasing():
    arr = [19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1] + list(range(1, 20))
    assert iterative_insertion_sort(arr) == sorted(arr)
    def test_all_but_one_element_the_same():
    arr = [0] * 19 + [1]
    assert iterative_insertion_sort(arr) == sorted(arr)
    def test_all_but_one_element_the_same_big_delta():
    arr = [1] * 19 + [100]
    assert iterative_insertion_sort(arr) == sorted(arr)
    def test_large_range():
    arr = [-100] + list(range(1, 20))
    assert iterative_insertion_sort(arr) == sorted(arr)
    def test_very_close_numbers():
    arr = [i/10 for i in range(20)]
    assert iterative_insertion_sort(arr) == sorted(arr)
    def test_all_negative_numbers():
    arr = list(range(0, -5, -1))
    assert iterative_insertion_sort(arr) == sorted(arr)
    def test_mix_of_positive_and_negative():
    arr = [-10, 10] * 10
    assert iterative_insertion_sort(arr) == sorted(arr)
    def test_alternating_high_and_low():
    arr = [20 - i if i % 2 == 0 else i for i in range(20)]
    assert iterative_insertion_sort(arr) == sorted(arr)
    def test_peak_in_the_middle():
    arr = [2] * 10 + [3] + [2] * 9
    assert iterative_insertion_sort(arr) == sorted(arr)
    def test_small_range_random_integers():
    arr = [5, 3, 0, 4, 0, 4, 4, 0, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 4, 1, 0, 1, 4, 3, 5]
    assert iterative_insertion_sort(arr) == sorted(arr)
    def test_floating_point_numbers():
    arr = [float(i) for i in range(20)]
    assert iterative_insertion_sort(arr) == sorted(arr)
    def test_large_value_at_the_beginning():
    arr = [1000] + list(range(1, 20))
    assert iterative_insertion_sort(arr) == sorted(arr)

  • @Jonzy6ixx
    @Jonzy6ixx 9 месяцев назад

    ❤❤❤❤ the simplest video have seen so far that made this so simple. I have watched dozens of videos at a point I said I will never use insertions sort 😅

  • @olafschlammbeutel
    @olafschlammbeutel 4 года назад +3

    Really nice and clean code! Good work!

  • @lena-ck9wz
    @lena-ck9wz 4 года назад +10

    thank you for explaining this in a simple way 🙏🏼

  • @kiranvarghese6046
    @kiranvarghese6046 2 года назад +2

    thanks a lot for this simple code man .......a lot of sites on the internet had to many complicated codes but this one was small and simple :)

  • @jiaziliang5143
    @jiaziliang5143 3 года назад +2

    Very clear explanation, thank you so much!

  • @jimmadjy
    @jimmadjy 9 месяцев назад

    Thank you man . Best explanation , easy to understand

  • @dkadayinthailand3082
    @dkadayinthailand3082 Год назад +26

    Is there any reason you would want to use this instead of the built in sort function in Python?

    • @nosi851
      @nosi851 10 месяцев назад +22

      my stupid ass teacher wants us to think of solutions instead

    • @elemeismo7810
      @elemeismo7810 9 месяцев назад +8

      Job interviews

    • @Jonzy6ixx
      @Jonzy6ixx 9 месяцев назад +1

      I was about to ask the same

    • @darcash1738
      @darcash1738 9 месяцев назад +1

      Timsort op. Look into its implementation, that’s why it’s built in. Done v intelligently

    • @elestroaryan2501
      @elestroaryan2501 8 месяцев назад +1

      In Java we have function but in interview the ask us to make by ourself

  • @OmUplenchwar
    @OmUplenchwar 2 месяца назад

    just amazing man. keep it up!

  • @yeleukenov
    @yeleukenov 6 месяцев назад

    Eloquent, beautiful. Thanks

  • @TheKorkahn
    @TheKorkahn 4 года назад +6

    Very nice, just what I needed, thanks!

  • @abianand949
    @abianand949 2 года назад

    very Informative and simple.. Loved your explanation..

  • @SylDragonia
    @SylDragonia 24 дня назад

    7:20 just to correct you. There is a -1 index in Python but it points to the last element.

  • @badboy333666999
    @badboy333666999 2 года назад

    Brilliant explanation. Thank you!

  • @toshans845
    @toshans845 Год назад

    please make more videos like this for more concepts like Job scheduling with Greedy method , Knapsack problems, Travelling salesman Problems etc , it will be very useful for many tech enthusiasts 🙏🏻

  • @bhavishahadiyal7836
    @bhavishahadiyal7836 3 года назад +3

    Thankyou it's really great keep it up:)

  • @rajrish
    @rajrish 7 месяцев назад +2

    I found your code simple but but i dont think it is the correct example of insertion sort. bcz in insertion sort, we pick one element and put it to its correct location, but you kept swapping the element with the previous element until the previous element is not smaller than our main element. So it is technically an example of bubble sort that is executed in the reverse direction. You won't get what im trying to say just by reading my sentence. Therefore look at this example of insertion sort :
    l1 = [5,1,3,4,2]
    n = len(l1)
    for i in range(n):
    k = l1[i]
    j = i-1
    while k=0 :
    l1[j+1] = l1[j]
    j -= 1
    else:
    l1[j+1] = k
    print('Sorted list: ', l1)

  • @g__red
    @g__red Год назад

    very good explanation and very understandable code!

  • @challasomesh2397
    @challasomesh2397 2 года назад

    Perfect explanation, Thank you sir!

  • @jorgeluismadridgomez1643
    @jorgeluismadridgomez1643 2 года назад +2

    I was told that in insertion sort we don't make a swap and we only move the elements greater than the current to the right next position until we reach the current correct position. Does that explanation make sense? or the swap action is the same that the shift action?

    • @sahilshukla8619
      @sahilshukla8619 2 года назад +2

      Left shifting a digit one by one is equivalent to swapping the digit on left hand side one by one

  • @sambhavbhalla2697
    @sambhavbhalla2697 3 года назад +2

    Hey , I had a doubt cuz when I wrote this code it was showing list index out of range also why did we do j=-1 , if we are going from left to right so we are increasing the index we aren't going from right to left?

    • @prashantpareek5863
      @prashantpareek5863 3 года назад +18

      the reason why j = j -1 is used is probably because,in this algo the elements to the left are always sorted before we move further(towards right),for example
      li = [2,6,5,1,3,4]
      here we start the for loop from index 1 i.e from the number '6' and check if the number to the left of '6' is greater than 6,if it is we swap and since 2 is not greater than 6, we do not swap, and since, we do not swap j = j-1 doesn't get triggered in the loop ,now we move further and now j = 2 (since, j = i),we check if the number '6' is greater than the next number, which is '5',since it is,we enter the for loop and swap these two, now as we know j is equal to 2,and we need to check if the number we just swapped is also greater than the number which is left of this newly swapped number, so, we are checking if the number '5' which just now came in the place of '6', is also greater than the number '2',to check this we decrement j by one and since it is decremented, now, j again checks if the number to the left is smaller than the number present at j, since, '5' is greater than '2', no swapping takes place. But as we move, j is equal to 3,and we check if the number to the left of '1', is greater than '1' (mind you,now the li looks like this li = [2,5,6,1,3,4])
      since '6' is greater than '1', we swap now the array looks like this li = [2,5,1,6,3,4],as i had told you in the beginning that this algo always has the elemente in the left soretd before it moves forward,but you can see that the array to the left of 3 is not sorted,coz '1' is in the middle when it should be at the beginning, so, we decrease j to 2 again and check if the number to the left of '1' is greater than '1' since,5 is greater than '1' we swap since a swap has happened we further decrease j to 1 and check if the number to the left of '1' is greater than '1' since '2' is greater we swap and we get li = [1,2,5,6,3,4], now we move further in the same way.

    • @thomasjefferson6225
      @thomasjefferson6225 3 года назад +2

      @@prashantpareek5863 this should have more likes. basically j is an index used to know how many comparisions needs to be done for each key.

  • @Nickgaming19
    @Nickgaming19 Год назад

    Thanks brother, This helped me a lot

  • @RamRam-jp2kc
    @RamRam-jp2kc 2 года назад

    best video on youtube.

  • @SuperBhavanishankar
    @SuperBhavanishankar 3 года назад +2

    Hi. can this even more simpler version works? -->
    for i in range(0,len(lst)):
    while (lst[i-1]>lst[i] and i>0):
    lst[i-1],lst[i]=lst[i],lst[i-1]
    i-=1
    print(lst)

    • @nvrbck
      @nvrbck 2 года назад +2

      he defined a function and you didnt

  • @plusinfinity3251
    @plusinfinity3251 3 года назад

    Good explanation 👏👍

  • @pedramghasemi1417
    @pedramghasemi1417 4 месяца назад

    Thank you so much, im grateful

  • @johnmahugu
    @johnmahugu 5 месяцев назад +1

    brilliant!!!

  • @NadiraRupasinghe
    @NadiraRupasinghe 2 месяца назад

    I would really appreciate if you can use appropriate and understandable identifiers for variables.

  • @NawbieOSRS
    @NawbieOSRS Месяц назад

    is "j = i" actually making a new array? Or just defining the value in "I"?

  • @Abhi-fq4wc
    @Abhi-fq4wc 11 дней назад

    Please make complete dsa playlist in python

  • @atkbane
    @atkbane Год назад

    muy buena explicacion, gracias por el video

  • @jimo1150
    @jimo1150 3 месяца назад +1

    what is the point of j = i ? and not just use i

  • @devendravyas328
    @devendravyas328 6 месяцев назад

    Be continue bro.

  • @ryanboll9464
    @ryanboll9464 Год назад

    New to coding. Curious why you used i in your for loop and then set j to i instead of just using j to iterate through?

  • @mariusbaldovin4959
    @mariusbaldovin4959 7 месяцев назад

    There is actually an item at index -1 and it is the last element from the list

  • @devansh6839
    @devansh6839 Год назад

    a good explanation!

  • @chandrasekharparimi1167
    @chandrasekharparimi1167 9 месяцев назад

    superb master

  • @shahriarshovo3382
    @shahriarshovo3382 3 года назад +1

    may you explain more about j=j-1 ? should it decreasing from last element ?

    • @prashantpareek5863
      @prashantpareek5863 3 года назад +8

      the reason why j = j -1 is used is probably because,in this algo the elements to the left are always sorted before we move further(towards right),for example
      li = [2,6,5,1,3,4]
      here we start the for loop from index 1 i.e from the number '6' and check if the number to the left of '6' is greater than 6,if it is we swap and since 2 is not greater than 6, we do not swap, and since, we do not swap j = j-1 doesn't get triggered in the loop ,now we move further and now j = 2 (since, j = i),we check if the number '6' is greater than the next number, which is '5',since it is,we enter the for loop and swap these two, now as we know j is equal to 2,and we need to check if the number we just swapped is also greater than the number which is left of this newly swapped number, so, we are checking if the number '5' which just now came in the place of '6', is also greater than the number '2',to check this we decrement j by one and since it is decremented, now, j again checks if the number to the left is smaller than the number present at j, since, '5' is greater than '2', no swapping takes place. But as we move, j is equal to 3,and we check if the number to the left of '1', is greater than '1' (mind you,now the li looks like this li = [2,5,6,1,3,4])
      since '6' is greater than '1', we swap now the array looks like this li = [2,5,1,6,3,4],as i had told you in the beginning that this algo always has the elemente in the left soretd before it moves forward,but you can see that the array to the left of 3 is not sorted,coz '1' is in the middle when it should be at the beginning, so, we decrease j to 2 again and check if the number to the left of '1' is greater than '1' since,5 is greater than '1' we swap since a swap has happened we further decrease j to 1 and check if the number to the left of '1' is greater than '1' since '2' is greater we swap and we get li = [1,2,5,6,3,4], now we move further in the same way.

    • @shahriarshovo3382
      @shahriarshovo3382 3 года назад +2

      @@prashantpareek5863 Thank you so much ❤️

    • @prashantpareek5863
      @prashantpareek5863 3 года назад +1

      @@shahriarshovo3382 I hope the doubt was cleared.. 👍

    • @shahriarshovo3382
      @shahriarshovo3382 3 года назад +1

      @@prashantpareek5863 yes . :D

    • @prashantpareek5863
      @prashantpareek5863 3 года назад

      @@shahriarshovo3382 hey, Hi, are you Shariar from Dennis Ivy's course? The guy who did the front end of the Devsearch project?

  • @mountainp800
    @mountainp800 2 года назад

    How does this have better presentation than my online university?

  • @christianrodier3381
    @christianrodier3381 3 месяца назад

    super helpful

  • @guilhermebarnes7663
    @guilhermebarnes7663 2 года назад +1

    This seems like an inefficient bubble sort algo

  • @clumsySenpai
    @clumsySenpai 2 года назад +1

    I trust you and your console.

  • @NOM855
    @NOM855 Год назад

    i have a question
    why u'v used while instead we can use for like that :
    def tri_insertion(L):
    for i in range(1,len(l)):
    for j in range(len(l[:i])):
    if l[i]

  • @chasest.claire9853
    @chasest.claire9853 Год назад

    why would you call a for loop, which is slower iirc, instead of maybe append value to list then just call the sort on the array? I’m still learning efficiency

  • @PrajithPS-oj4rj
    @PrajithPS-oj4rj 8 месяцев назад

    thanks a lot brother!

  • @rudripancholifc
    @rudripancholifc 2 года назад

    Love from prayagraj

  • @ignitedminds6164
    @ignitedminds6164 9 месяцев назад

    Sir continue the series in leetcode

  • @mohankarthik9619
    @mohankarthik9619 2 года назад

    Can you explain the condition used in program

  • @peachfreude
    @peachfreude 3 года назад

    how to print number 1,2,3,4,5 in ascending then descending order in a same line? the output should be 1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,1. can you help?

    • @Game-nr3sr
      @Game-nr3sr 2 года назад +1

      do reverse list and then join this from 1::

  • @33krishh
    @33krishh Год назад +1

    i caN Trust you now sir

  • @isit4768
    @isit4768 3 месяца назад +1

    Everything else is clear but why did he used "j" instead of "i" ???

  • @lebu8769
    @lebu8769 3 года назад +1

    I didn't knew that Felix had started a programming channel apart from his PEWDIEPIE channel.
    But my doubt, is why is he having so less SUBSCRIBERS.........
    😂

  • @DimaCleann
    @DimaCleann 9 месяцев назад

    why did we check if j is greater than zero ? we start the loop from zero

  • @pianocoversjulian1008
    @pianocoversjulian1008 3 года назад

    Better and shorter than the one of my teacher 👌😅

  • @burnertrump875
    @burnertrump875 3 года назад

    Does this work with numbers larger than 9?

  • @holmbrg-_-2221
    @holmbrg-_-2221 8 месяцев назад

    Why do you need to define a new variable j? You can just ignore j and use i. Am i wrong?

  • @DanielSmith-uj7rr
    @DanielSmith-uj7rr 3 года назад

    Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

  • @bmk2561
    @bmk2561 Год назад

    can someone explain whats j=i used for

  • @Phlypour
    @Phlypour Год назад

    All is fine, but I'm not sure why did you create a 'j' that is 'i'? I removed the 'j' variable and the result is just the same. Is it due to some common or PEP practices or a different Python version?

    • @g__red
      @g__red Год назад

      I think that if you do not write "j = i" what happens is that the while loop starts from the beginning of the list each time (it goes to the right and then to the left for each iteration) so it's less efficient, whereas with "j = i" it starts at "i" position and goes backwards thanks to "j -= 1".

    • @lentlen5857
      @lentlen5857 Год назад

      this algorithm is not insertion sort algo ...
      this IS an Insertion sort :
      def insertion(d):
      for i in range(1,len(d)):
      key = d[i]
      j = i-1
      while j >= 0 and key

    • @lentlen5857
      @lentlen5857 Год назад

      I mean the algorithm in the video is NOT an insertion sort algorithm

  • @hadrian2801
    @hadrian2801 2 года назад

    Why does j need to be used, cant i just be used instead?

  • @baby_doll4.13
    @baby_doll4.13 3 года назад

    insertion sort perform shift operations rather than swap.

  • @KashishYadav657
    @KashishYadav657 9 месяцев назад +1

    Not showing the output

  • @cr1064
    @cr1064 Год назад

    Thank you!!

  • @idklife7381
    @idklife7381 2 месяца назад

    THANK YOU

  • @arhamatif2943
    @arhamatif2943 Год назад

    hey can u give the code so i can copy and paste cause mine's not working

  • @saeid4349
    @saeid4349 Месяц назад

    You forgot to say that running-time in best case of Insertion sort is TETA(N)

  • @cheerslove9975
    @cheerslove9975 2 года назад

    Thank you man

  • @diyafathimadiyafathima.k5494
    @diyafathimadiyafathima.k5494 Год назад +1

    Can anyone explain why we put the j-=1?

    • @strade740
      @strade740 10 месяцев назад

      j -= 1 means j = j - 1 it is done so that we keep on comparing the value with the left value until the while loop condition become wrong
      too late haha, but i hope u have already figured it out!

  • @x0fficial
    @x0fficial Год назад

    Super good!

  • @oneloveafrica8860
    @oneloveafrica8860 Год назад

    wow it working🥳

  • @factaboutindia7243
    @factaboutindia7243 Год назад +1

    this code is not worked

  • @mohamedshiraf2855
    @mohamedshiraf2855 2 года назад

    Thanks

  • @kanikapanwar7305
    @kanikapanwar7305 2 года назад

    Thank u

  • @marwasolh9449
    @marwasolh9449 Год назад

    ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @julianavarela4936
    @julianavarela4936 3 месяца назад

    A hero

  • @helpapproved
    @helpapproved 3 года назад

    tq bro .

  • @lakshyadhiman2061
    @lakshyadhiman2061 2 года назад

    😎🤝

  • @awetinoawets9290
    @awetinoawets9290 4 месяца назад

    You forgot return arr[::-1]

    • @kofiboahen2156
      @kofiboahen2156 2 месяца назад

      return arr at the end of the function

  • @Lumiobyte
    @Lumiobyte 4 месяца назад

    LinusTechTips

  • @jacobsola3521
    @jacobsola3521 Год назад

    Noice.

  • @crazypage2621
    @crazypage2621 4 месяца назад +1

    bro your code is not correct at all thank you

  • @dhruvakanumolu8997
    @dhruvakanumolu8997 2 месяца назад

    Bro the code is wrong 😂

  • @cleverarsey3568
    @cleverarsey3568 Год назад +1

    if anyone else is here cuz of faris foo like this comment

  • @sanooosai
    @sanooosai 8 месяцев назад +1

    thank you

  • @Debashis-n3m
    @Debashis-n3m 9 месяцев назад

    Thanks