""" This is a pure python implementation of the shell sort algorithm For doctests run following command: python -m doctest -v shell_sort.py or python3 -m doctest -v shell_sort.py For manual testing run: python shell_sort.py """ from __future__ import print_function def shell_sort(collection): """Pure implementation of shell sort algorithm in Python :param collection: Some mutable ordered collection with heterogeneous comparable items inside :return: the same collection ordered by ascending >>> shell_sort([0, 5, 3, 2, 2]) [0, 2, 2, 3, 5] >>> shell_sort([]) [] >>> shell_sort([-2, -5, -45]) [-45, -5, -2] """ # Marcin Ciura's gap sequence gaps = [701, 301, 132, 57, 23, 10, 4, 1] for gap in gaps: i = gap while i < len(collection): temp = collection[i] j = i while j >= gap and collection[j - gap] > temp: collection[j] = collection[j - gap] j -= gap collection[j] = temp i += 1 return collection 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(shell_sort(unsorted))