How does insertion work in Python

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I tried implementing insertion sort in python. I tried to follow the values on paper but once the counting variable i gets bigger than len(s) I don't know what to do, how/why does it still run?

def sort_numbers(s):
    for i in range(1, len(s)):
        val = s[i]
        j = i - 1
        while (j >= 0) and (s[j] > val):
            s[j+1] = s[j]
            j = j - 1
        s[j+1] = val

def main():
    x = eval(input("Enter numbers to be sorted: "))
    x = list(x)
    sort_numbers(x)
    print(x)
Oct 8, 2018 in Python by aryya
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Or, this one:

def ins_sort(k):
    for i in range(1,len(k)):    #since we want to swap an item with previous one, we start from 1
        j = i                    #bcoz reducing i directly will mess our for loop, so we reduce its copy j instead
        temp = k[j]              #temp will be used for comparison with previous items, and sent to the place it belongs
        while j > 0 and temp < k[j-1]: #j>0 bcoz no point going till k[0] since there is no seat available on its left, for temp
            k[j] = k[j-1] #Move the bigger item 1 step right to make room for temp
            j=j-1 #take k[j] all the way left to the place where it has a smaller/no value to its left.
        k[j] = temp
    return k
answered Oct 8, 2018 by charlie_brown
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