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import hashlib


    

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hashes = [hashlib.md5(bytes(str(i),"utf-8")).hexdigest() for i in range(100000)]


    

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sorted_hashes = sorted(hashes)


    

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%timeit sorted_hashes


    

    




The slowest run took 63.99 times longer than the fastest. This could mean that an intermediate result is being cached.
10000000 loops, best of 3: 15.7 ns per loop

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