characteristics of insertion sort code example

Example: insertion sort

def insertionSort(arr): 
    for i in range(1, len(arr)): 
        key = arr[i] 
        j = i-1
        while j >= 0 and key < arr[j] : 
                arr[j + 1] = arr[j] 
                j -= 1
        arr[j + 1] = key