""" Comb sort is a relatively simple sorting algorithm originally designed by Wlodzimierz Dobosiewicz in 1980. Later it was rediscovered by Stephen Lacey and Richard Box in 1991. Comb sort improves on bubble sort. This is pure python implementation of comb sort algorithm 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): """Pure implementation of comb sort algorithm in Python :param collection: some mutable ordered collection with heterogeneous comparable items inside :return: the same collection ordered by ascending Examples: >>> comb_sort([0, 5, 3, 2, 2]) [0, 2, 2, 3, 5] >>> comb_sort([]) [] >>> comb_sort([-2, -5, -45]) [-45, -5, -2] """ shrink_factor = 1.3 gap = len(data) swapped = True i = 0 while gap > 1 or swapped: # Update the gap value for a next comb gap = int(float(gap) / shrink_factor) swapped = False i = 0 while gap + i < len(data): if data[i] > data[i+gap]: # Swap values data[i], data[i+gap] = data[i+gap], data[i] swapped = True i += 1 return data 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(comb_sort(unsorted))