""" A pure Python implementation of the quick sort algorithm For doctests run following command: python3 -m doctest -v quick_sort.py For manual testing run: python3 quick_sort.py """ from __future__ import annotations from random import randrange def quick_sort(collection: list) -> list: """A pure Python implementation of quicksort algorithm. :param collection: a mutable collection of comparable items :return: the same collection ordered in ascending order Examples: >>> quick_sort([0, 5, 3, 2, 2]) [0, 2, 2, 3, 5] >>> quick_sort([]) [] >>> quick_sort([-2, 5, 0, -45]) [-45, -2, 0, 5] """ # Base case: if the collection has 0 or 1 elements, it is already sorted if len(collection) < 2: return collection # Randomly select a pivot index and remove the pivot element from the collection pivot_index = randrange(len(collection)) pivot = collection.pop(pivot_index) # Partition the remaining elements into two groups: lesser or equal, and greater lesser = [item for item in collection if item <= pivot] greater = [item for item in collection if item > pivot] # Recursively sort the lesser and greater groups, and combine with the pivot return [*quick_sort(lesser), pivot, *quick_sort(greater)] if __name__ == "__main__": # Get user input and convert it into a list of integers user_input = input("Enter numbers separated by a comma:\n").strip() unsorted = [int(item) for item in user_input.split(",")] # Print the result of sorting the user-provided list print(quick_sort(unsorted))