Defining a list in Python is easy—just use the bracket syntax to indicate items in a list, like this: list_of_ints = [1, 2, 3] Items in a list do not have to all be the same type; they can be ...

If the list consists of more than one item, we split the list into two halves and recursively invoke a merge sort on both halves. While comparing two halves for merging, the first element of both ...