from typing import List def radix_sort(list_of_ints: List[int]) -> List[int]: """ radix_sort(range(15)) == sorted(range(15)) True radix_sort(reversed(range(15))) == sorted(range(15)) True radix_sort([1,100,10,1000]) == sorted([1,100,10,1000]) True """ RADIX = 10 placement = 1 max_digit = max(list_of_ints) while placement <= max_digit: # declare and initialize empty buckets buckets = [list() for _ in range(RADIX)] # split list_of_ints between the buckets for i in list_of_ints: tmp = int((i / placement) % RADIX) buckets[tmp].append(i) # put each buckets' contents into list_of_ints a = 0 for b in range(RADIX): for i in buckets[b]: list_of_ints[a] = i a += 1 # move to next placement *= RADIX return list_of_ints