""" Author : Mehdi ALAOUI This is a pure Python implementation of Dynamic Programming solution to the longest increasing subsequence of a given sequence. The problem is : Given an array, to find the longest and increasing sub-array in that given array and return it. Example: [10, 22, 9, 33, 21, 50, 41, 60, 80] as input will return [10, 22, 33, 41, 60, 80] as output """ from __future__ import annotations def longest_subsequence(array: list[int]) -> list[int]: # This function is recursive """ Some examples >>> longest_subsequence([10, 22, 9, 33, 21, 50, 41, 60, 80]) [10, 22, 33, 41, 60, 80] >>> longest_subsequence([4, 8, 7, 5, 1, 12, 2, 3, 9]) [1, 2, 3, 9] >>> longest_subsequence([9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 7]) [8] >>> longest_subsequence([1, 1, 1]) [1, 1, 1] >>> longest_subsequence([]) [] """ array_length = len(array) # If the array contains only one element, we return it (it's the stop condition of # recursion) if array_length <= 1: return array # Else pivot = array[0] isFound = False i = 1 longest_subseq = [] while not isFound and i < array_length: if array[i] < pivot: isFound = True temp_array = [element for element in array[i:] if element >= array[i]] temp_array = longest_subsequence(temp_array) if len(temp_array) > len(longest_subseq): longest_subseq = temp_array else: i += 1 temp_array = [element for element in array[1:] if element >= pivot] temp_array = [pivot] + longest_subsequence(temp_array) if len(temp_array) > len(longest_subseq): return temp_array else: return longest_subseq if __name__ == "__main__": import doctest doctest.testmod()