# To get an insight into naive recursive way to solve the Knapsack problem """ A shopkeeper has bags of wheat that each have different weights and different profits. eg. no_of_items 4 profit 5 4 8 6 weight 1 2 4 5 max_weight 5 Constraints: max_weight > 0 profit[i] >= 0 weight[i] >= 0 Calculate the maximum profit that the shopkeeper can make given maxmum weight that can be carried. """ def knapsack( weights: list, values: list, number_of_items: int, max_weight: int, index: int ) -> int: """ Function description is as follows- :param weights: Take a list of weights :param values: Take a list of profits corresponding to the weights :param number_of_items: number of items available to pick from :param max_weight: Maximum weight that could be carried :param index: the element we are looking at :return: Maximum expected gain >>> knapsack([1, 2, 4, 5], [5, 4, 8, 6], 4, 5, 0) 13 >>> knapsack([3 ,4 , 5], [10, 9 , 8], 3, 25, 0) 27 """ if index == number_of_items: return 0 ans1 = 0 ans2 = 0 ans1 = knapsack(weights, values, number_of_items, max_weight, index + 1) if weights[index] <= max_weight: ans2 = values[index] + knapsack( weights, values, number_of_items, max_weight - weights[index], index + 1 ) return max(ans1, ans2) if __name__ == "__main__": import doctest doctest.testmod()