#!/usr/bin/env python """Illustrate how to implement bucket sort algorithm.""" # Author: OMKAR PATHAK # This program will illustrate how to implement bucket sort algorithm # Wikipedia says: Bucket sort, or bin sort, is a sorting algorithm that works # by distributing the elements of an array into a number of buckets. # Each bucket is then sorted individually, either using a different sorting # algorithm, or by recursively applying the bucket sorting algorithm. It is a # distribution sort, and is a cousin of radix sort in the most to least # significant digit flavour. # Bucket sort is a generalization of pigeonhole sort. Bucket sort can be # implemented with comparisons and therefore can also be considered a # comparison sort algorithm. The computational complexity estimates involve the # number of buckets. # Time Complexity of Solution: # Best Case O(n); Average Case O(n); Worst Case O(n) DEFAULT_BUCKET_SIZE = 5 def bucket_sort(my_list, bucket_size=DEFAULT_BUCKET_SIZE): if len(my_list) == 0: raise Exception("Please add some elements in the array.") min_value, max_value = (min(my_list), max(my_list)) bucket_count = ((max_value - min_value) // bucket_size + 1) buckets = [[] for _ in range(int(bucket_count))] for i in range(len(my_list)): buckets[int((my_list[i] - min_value) // bucket_size) ].append(my_list[i]) return sorted([buckets[i][j] for i in range(len(buckets)) for j in range(len(buckets[i]))]) if __name__ == "__main__": user_input = input('Enter numbers separated by a comma:').strip() unsorted = [float(n) for n in user_input.split(',') if len(user_input) > 0] print(bucket_sort(unsorted))