""" This is a pure python implementation of the merge sort algorithm For doctests run following command: python -m doctest -v merge_sort.py or python3 -m doctest -v merge_sort.py For manual testing run: python merge_sort.py """ from __future__ import print_function def merge_sort(collection): """Pure implementation of the merge sort algorithm in Python :param collection: some mutable ordered collection with heterogeneous comparable items inside :return: the same collection ordered by ascending Examples: >>> merge_sort([0, 5, 3, 2, 2]) [0, 2, 2, 3, 5] >>> merge_sort([]) [] >>> merge_sort([-2, -5, -45]) [-45, -5, -2] """ def merge(left, right): '''merge left and right :param left: left collection :param right: right collection :return: merge result ''' result = [] while left and right: result.append(left.pop(0) if left[0] <= right[0] else right.pop(0)) return result + left + right if len(collection) <= 1: return collection mid = len(collection) // 2 return merge(merge_sort(collection[:mid]), merge_sort(collection[mid:])) if __name__ == '__main__': try: raw_input # Python 2 except NameError: raw_input = input # Python 3 user_input = raw_input('Enter numbers separated by a comma:\n').strip() unsorted = [int(item) for item in user_input.split(',')] print(*merge_sort(unsorted), sep=',')