""" This is a pure Python implementation of the radix sort algorithm Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_sort """ from __future__ import annotations RADIX = 10 def radix_sort(list_of_ints: list[int]) -> list[int]: """ Examples: >>> radix_sort([0, 5, 3, 2, 2]) [0, 2, 2, 3, 5] >>> radix_sort(list(range(15))) == sorted(range(15)) True >>> radix_sort(list(range(14,-1,-1))) == sorted(range(15)) True >>> radix_sort([1,100,10,1000]) == sorted([1,100,10,1000]) True """ placement = 1 max_digit = max(list_of_ints) while placement <= max_digit: # declare and initialize empty buckets buckets: list[list] = [[] for _ in range(RADIX)] # split list_of_ints between the buckets for i in list_of_ints: tmp = int((i / placement) % RADIX) buckets[tmp].append(i) # put each buckets' contents into list_of_ints a = 0 for b in range(RADIX): for i in buckets[b]: list_of_ints[a] = i a += 1 # move to next placement *= RADIX return list_of_ints if __name__ == "__main__": import doctest doctest.testmod()