#!/usr/bin/env python """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) DEFAULT_BUCKET_SIZE = 5 def bucket_sort(my_list, bucket_size=DEFAULT_BUCKET_SIZE): if len(my_list) == 0: raise Exception("Please add some elements in the array.") min_value, max_value = (min(my_list), max(my_list)) bucket_count = (max_value - min_value) // bucket_size + 1 buckets = [[] for _ in range(int(bucket_count))] for i in range(len(my_list)): buckets[int((my_list[i] - min_value) // bucket_size)].append(my_list[i]) return sorted( [buckets[i][j] for i in range(len(buckets)) for j in range(len(buckets[i]))] ) if __name__ == "__main__": user_input = input("Enter numbers separated by a comma:").strip() unsorted = [float(n) for n in user_input.split(",") if len(user_input) > 0] print(bucket_sort(unsorted))