Speaker: Grant Jenks C++, Java, and .NET provide sorted collections types. Wish Python did too? Look around and you'll find Pandas DataFrame indexes, Sqlite in-memory databases, even redis-py sorted set commands. The SortedContainers module was designed to fill this gap with sorted list, dict and set implementations. It's written in pure-Python but generally faster than C-extension modules. Come see how it works. Slides can be found at: https://speakerdeck.com/pycon2016 and https://github.com/PyCon/2016-slides