{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "This notebook was prepared by [wdonahoe](https://github.com/wdonahoe). Source and license info is on [GitHub](https://github.com/donnemartin/interactive-coding-challenges)." ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# Solution Notebook" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Problem: Implement a function that groups identical items based on their order in the list.\n", "\n", "* [Constraints](#Constraints)\n", "* [Test Cases](#Test-Cases)\n", "* [Algorithm: Modified Selection Sort](#Algorithm: Modified Selection Sort)\n", "* [Code: Modified Selection Sort](#Code: Modified Selection Sort)\n", "* [Algorithm: Ordered Dict](#Algorithm: Ordered Dict)\n", "* [Code: Ordered Dict](#Code:-Ordered-Dict)\n", "* [Unit Test](#Unit-Test)" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Constraints\n", "\n", "* Can we use extra data structures?\n", " * Yes" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Test Cases\n", "\n", "* group_ordered([1,2,1,3,2]) -> [1,1,2,2,3]\n", "* group_ordered(['a','b','a') -> ['a','a','b']\n", "* group_ordered([1,1,2,3,4,5,2,1]-> [1,1,1,2,2,3,4,5]\n", "* group_ordered([]) -> []\n", "* group_ordered([1]) -> [1]\n", "* group_ordered(None) -> None\n" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Algorithm: Modified Selection Sort\n", "\n", "* Save the relative position of the first-occurence of each item in a list.\n", "* Iterate through list of unique items.\n", " * Keep an outer index; scan rest of list, swapping matching items with outer index and incrementing outer index each time. \n", " \n", "Complexity:\n", "* Time: O(n^2)\n", "* Space: O(n)" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# Code: Modified Selection Sort" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 5, "metadata": { "collapsed": false }, "outputs": [], "source": [ "def make_order_list(list_in):\n", " order_list = []\n", " for item in list_in:\n", " if item not in order_list:\n", " order_list.append(item)\n", " return order_list\n", "\n", "\n", "def group_ordered(list_in):\n", " if list_in is None:\n", " return None\n", " order_list = make_order_list(list_in)\n", " current = 0\n", " for item in order_list:\n", " search = current + 1\n", " while True:\n", " try:\n", " if list_in[search] != item:\n", " search += 1\n", " else:\n", " current += 1\n", " list_in[current], list_in[search] = list_in[search], list_in[current]\n", " search += 1\n", " except IndexError:\n", " break\n", " return list_in" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Algorithm: Ordered Dict.\n", "\n", "* Use an ordered dict to track insertion order of each key\n", "* Flatten list of values.\n", "\n", "Complexity:\n", "\n", "* Time: O(n)\n", "* Space: O(n)" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Code: Ordered Dict" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "collapsed": true }, "outputs": [], "source": [ "from collections import OrderedDict\n", "\n", "def group_ordered(list_in):\n", " result = OrderedDict()\n", " for value in list_in:\n", " result.setdefault(value, []).append(value)\n", " return [v for group in result.values() for v in group]" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Unit Test\n", "\n", "#### The following unit test is expected to fail until you solve the challenge." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 3, "metadata": { "collapsed": false }, "outputs": [ { "name": "stdout", "output_type": "stream", "text": [ "Overwriting test_group_ordered.py\n" ] } ], "source": [ "%%writefile test_group_ordered.py\n", "from nose.tools import assert_equal\n", "\n", "class TestGroupOrdered(object):\n", "\n", " def test_group_ordered(self):\n", " assert_equal(group_ordered(None), None)\n", " assert_equal(group_ordered([]), [])\n", " assert_equal(group_ordered([1]), [1])\n", " assert_equal(group_ordered([1,2,1,3,2]),[1,1,2,2,3])\n", " assert_equal(group_ordered(['a','b','a']),['a','a','b'])\n", " assert_equal(group_ordered([1,1,2,3,4,5,2,1]),[1,1,1,2,2,3,4,5])\n", " assert_equal(group_ordered([1,2,3,4,3,4]),[1,2,3,3,4,4])\n", "\n", "def main():\n", " test = TestGroupOrdered()\n", " test.test_group_ordered()\n", "\n", "if __name__ == '__main__':\n", " main()\n" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 4, "metadata": { "collapsed": false }, "outputs": [], "source": [ "%run -i test_group_ordered.py" ] } ], "metadata": { "celltoolbar": "Edit Metadata", "kernelspec": { "display_name": "Python 2", "language": "python", "name": "python2" }, "language_info": { "codemirror_mode": { "name": "ipython", "version": 2 }, "file_extension": ".py", "mimetype": "text/x-python", "name": "python", "nbconvert_exporter": "python", "pygments_lexer": "ipython2", "version": "2.7.6" } }, "nbformat": 4, "nbformat_minor": 0 }