#!/usr/bin/env python3 """ Illustrate how to implement bucket sort algorithm. Author: OMKAR PATHAK This program will illustrate how to implement bucket sort algorithm Wikipedia says: Bucket sort, or bin sort, is a sorting algorithm that works by distributing the elements of an array into a number of buckets. Each bucket is then sorted individually, either using a different sorting algorithm, or by recursively applying the bucket sorting algorithm. It is a distribution sort, and is a cousin of radix sort in the most to least significant digit flavour. Bucket sort is a generalization of pigeonhole sort. Bucket sort can be implemented with comparisons and therefore can also be considered a comparison sort algorithm. The computational complexity estimates involve the number of buckets. Time Complexity of Solution: Worst case scenario occurs when all the elements are placed in a single bucket. The overall performance would then be dominated by the algorithm used to sort each bucket. In this case, O(n log n), because of TimSort Average Case O(n + (n^2)/k + k), where k is the number of buckets If k = O(n), time complexity is O(n) Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_sort """ from typing import List def bucket_sort(my_list: list) -> list: """ >>> data = [-1, 2, -5, 0] >>> bucket_sort(data) == sorted(data) True >>> data = [9, 8, 7, 6, -12] >>> bucket_sort(data) == sorted(data) True >>> data = [.4, 1.2, .1, .2, -.9] >>> bucket_sort(data) == sorted(data) True >>> bucket_sort([]) == sorted([]) True >>> import random >>> collection = random.sample(range(-50, 50), 50) >>> bucket_sort(collection) == sorted(collection) True """ if len(my_list) == 0: return [] min_value, max_value = min(my_list), max(my_list) bucket_count = int(max_value - min_value) + 1 buckets: List[list] = [[] for _ in range(bucket_count)] for i in range(len(my_list)): buckets[(int(my_list[i] - min_value) // bucket_count)].append(my_list[i]) return [v for bucket in buckets for v in sorted(bucket)] if __name__ == "__main__": from doctest import testmod testmod() assert bucket_sort([4, 5, 3, 2, 1]) == [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] assert bucket_sort([0, 1, -10, 15, 2, -2]) == [-10, -2, 0, 1, 2, 15]