Python/sorts/comb_sort.py
2019-10-05 10:14:13 +05:00

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"""
Comb sort is a relatively simple sorting algorithm originally designed by Wlodzimierz Dobosiewicz in 1980.
Later it was rediscovered by Stephen Lacey and Richard Box in 1991. Comb sort improves on bubble sort.
This is pure python implementation of comb sort algorithm
For doctests run following command:
python -m doctest -v comb_sort.py
or
python3 -m doctest -v comb_sort.py
For manual testing run:
python comb_sort.py
"""
def comb_sort(data):
"""Pure implementation of comb sort algorithm in Python
:param collection: some mutable ordered collection with heterogeneous
comparable items inside
:return: the same collection ordered by ascending
Examples:
>>> comb_sort([0, 5, 3, 2, 2])
[0, 2, 2, 3, 5]
>>> comb_sort([])
[]
>>> comb_sort([-2, -5, -45])
[-45, -5, -2]
"""
shrink_factor = 1.3
gap = len(data)
swapped = True
i = 0
while gap > 1 or swapped:
# Update the gap value for a next comb
gap = int(float(gap) / shrink_factor)
swapped = False
i = 0
while gap + i < len(data):
if data[i] > data[i + gap]:
# Swap values
data[i], data[i + gap] = data[i + gap], data[i]
swapped = True
i += 1
return data
if __name__ == "__main__":
user_input = input("Enter numbers separated by a comma:\n").strip()
unsorted = [int(item) for item in user_input.split(",")]
print(comb_sort(unsorted))