Bisect, is it possible to work with descending sorted lists?

Question

How can I use bisect module on lists that are sorted descending? e.g.

import bisect

x = [1.0,2.0,3.0,4.0] # normal, ascending
bisect.insort(x,2.5)  # -->         


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem and since when I used ordered list.

I ended up with solution where I kept original list always in ascending order and just used reversed iterator when I needed to have descending order values.

This might not work with your problem...