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Chapter 5.4, exercise 5: Pareto distribution and city populations.
author | Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com> |
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date | Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:41:44 -0600 |
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"""Section 4.2, exercise 1 of Allen Downey's Think Complexity book. "Write an implementation of a FIFO using either a doubly-linked list or a circular buffer." """ class Node(object): def __init__(self, data): self.prev = self.next = None self.data = data class Fifo(object): def __init__(self): self.first = None self.last = None def append(self, val): """Append a value onto the back of the queue.""" node = Node(val) if self.last: self.last.next = node node.prev = self.last self.last = node if not self.first: self.first = node def pop(self): """Remove and return the value at the front of the queue. Raises an IndexError if the queue is empty. """ if not self.first: raise IndexError node = self.first self.first = node.next node.prev = node.next = None if self.last is node: self.last = None return node.data def empty(self): """Returns True if the queue is empty and False otherwise.""" return self.first is None and self.last is None if __name__ == '__main__': import random values = range(100) random.shuffle(values) fifo = Fifo() assert fifo.empty() for v in values: fifo.append(v) got = [] while not fifo.empty(): got.append(fifo.pop()) assert got == values fifo.append(42) assert fifo.pop() == 42 assert fifo.empty() try: fifo.pop() except IndexError: pass else: assert False