CS61A Fall 2021 Homework 5: Iterators and Generators

HW05

Q1: Generate Permutations

def gen_perms(seq):
    """Generates all permutations of the given sequence. Each permutation is a
    list of the elements in SEQ in a different order. The permutations may be
    yielded in any order.

    >>> perms = gen_perms([100])
    >>> type(perms)
    <class 'generator'>
    >>> next(perms)
    [100]
    >>> try: #this piece of code prints "No more permutations!" if calling next would cause an error
    ...     next(perms)
    ... except StopIteration:
    ...     print('No more permutations!')
    No more permutations!
    >>> sorted(gen_perms([1, 2, 3])) # Returns a sorted list containing elements of the generator
    [[1, 2, 3], [1, 3, 2], [2, 1, 3], [2, 3, 1], [3, 1, 2], [3, 2, 1]]
    >>> sorted(gen_perms((10, 20, 30)))
    [[10, 20, 30], [10, 30, 20], [20, 10, 30], [20, 30, 10], [30, 10, 20], [30, 20, 10]]
    >>> sorted(gen_perms("ab"))
    [['a', 'b'], ['b', 'a']]
    """
    seq = list(seq)
    if len(seq) == 1:
        yield seq
    else:
        for _ in gen_perms(seq[1:]):
            for i in range(len(seq)):
                yield _[:i] + [seq[0]] + _[i:]

Q2: Yield Paths

def path_yielder(t, value):
    """Yields all possible paths from the root of t to a node with the label
    value as a list.

    >>> t1 = tree(1, [tree(2, [tree(3), tree(4, [tree(6)]), tree(5)]), tree(5)])
    >>> print_tree(t1)
    1
      2
        3
        4
          6
        5
      5
    >>> next(path_yielder(t1, 6))
    [1, 2, 4, 6]
    >>> path_to_5 = path_yielder(t1, 5)
    >>> sorted(list(path_to_5))
    [[1, 2, 5], [1, 5]]

    >>> t2 = tree(0, [tree(2, [t1])])
    >>> print_tree(t2)
    0
      2
        1
          2
            3
            4
              6
            5
          5
    >>> path_to_2 = path_yielder(t2, 2)
    >>> sorted(list(path_to_2))
    [[0, 2], [0, 2, 1, 2]]
    """
    if label(t) == value:
        yield [value]
    for _ in branches(t):
        for l in path_yielder(_, value):
            yield [label(t)] + l 

Q3: Preorder

def preorder(t):
    """Return a list of the entries in this tree in the order that they
    would be visited by a preorder traversal (see problem description).

    >>> numbers = tree(1, [tree(2), tree(3, [tree(4), tree(5)]), tree(6, [tree(7)])])
    >>> preorder(numbers)
    [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
    >>> preorder(tree(2, [tree(4, [tree(6)])]))
    [2, 4, 6]
    """ 
    path = [t.label]
    if t.is_leaf():
        return path
    for _ in t.branches:
        path += preorder(_)
    return path    

Q4: Generate Preorder

def generate_preorder(t):
    """Yield the entries in this tree in the order that they
    would be visited by a preorder traversal (see problem description).

    >>> numbers = tree(1, [tree(2), tree(3, [tree(4), tree(5)]), tree(6, [tree(7)])])
    >>> gen = generate_preorder(numbers)
    >>> next(gen)
    1
    >>> list(gen)
    [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
    """
    yield t.label
    for _ in t.branches:
        yield from preorder(_)

 Q5: Remainder Generator

def remainders_generator(m):
    """
    Yields m generators. The ith yielded generator yields natural numbers whose
    remainder is i when divided by m.

    >>> import types
    >>> [isinstance(gen, types.GeneratorType) for gen in remainders_generator(5)]
    [True, True, True, True, True]
    >>> remainders_four = remainders_generator(4)
    >>> for i in range(4):
    ...     print("First 3 natural numbers with remainder {0} when divided by 4:".format(i))
    ...     gen = next(remainders_four)
    ...     for _ in range(3):
    ...         print(next(gen))
    First 3 natural numbers with remainder 0 when divided by 4:
    4
    8
    12
    First 3 natural numbers with remainder 1 when divided by 4:
    1
    5
    9
    First 3 natural numbers with remainder 2 when divided by 4:
    2
    6
    10
    First 3 natural numbers with remainder 3 when divided by 4:
    3
    7
    11
    """
    "*** YOUR CODE HERE ***"
    def helper(i):
        for _ in naturals():
            if _ % m == i:
                yield _
    for _ in range(m):
        yield helper(_)