""" This is pure Python implementation of comb sort algorithm. Comb sort is a relatively simple sorting algorithm originally designed by Wlodzimierz Dobosiewicz in 1980. It was rediscovered by Stephen Lacey and Richard Box in 1991. Comb sort improves on bubble sort algorithm. In bubble sort, distance (or gap) between two compared elements is always one. Comb sort improvement is that gap can be much more than 1, in order to prevent slowing down by small values at the end of a list. More info on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comb_sort For doctests run following command: python -m doctest -v comb_sort.py or python3 -m doctest -v comb_sort.py For manual testing run: python comb_sort.py """ def comb_sort(data: list) -> list: """Pure implementation of comb sort algorithm in Python :param data: mutable collection with comparable items :return: the same collection in ascending order Examples: >>> comb_sort([0, 5, 3, 2, 2]) [0, 2, 2, 3, 5] >>> comb_sort([]) [] >>> comb_sort([99, 45, -7, 8, 2, 0, -15, 3]) [-15, -7, 0, 2, 3, 8, 45, 99] """ shrink_factor = 1.3 gap = len(data) completed = False while not completed: # Update the gap value for a next comb gap = int(gap / shrink_factor) if gap <= 1: completed = True index = 0 while index + gap < len(data): if data[index] > data[index + gap]: # Swap values data[index], data[index + gap] = data[index + gap], data[index] completed = False index += 1 return data if __name__ == "__main__": import doctest doctest.testmod() user_input = input("Enter numbers separated by a comma:\n").strip() unsorted = [int(item) for item in user_input.split(",")] print(comb_sort(unsorted))