诀窍是只生成可能需要的组合,并将它们存储在堆中。你拿出的每一个都是你还没见过的最小的。事实上,这个组合已经被拔出,这告诉你还有一些新的组合,它们可能也很小。在
有关如何使用堆,请参见https://docs.python.org/2/library/heapq.html。我们还需要生成组合的代码。然后,这里是为任何列表列表获取第一个n组合的工作代码:import heapq
# Helper class for storing combinations.
class ListSelector:
def __init__(self, lists, indexes):
self.lists = lists
self.indexes = indexes
def value(self):
answer = 0
for i in range(0, len(self.lists)):
answer = answer + self.lists[i][self.indexes[i]]
return answer
def values(self):
return [self.lists[i][self.indexes[i]] for i in range(0, len(self.lists))]
# These are the next combinations. We are willing to increment any
# leading 0, or the first non-zero value. This will provide one and
# only one path to each possible combination.
def next_selectors(self):
lists = self.lists
indexes = self.indexes
selectors = []
for i in range(0, len(lists)):
if len(lists[i]) <= indexes[i] + 1:
if 0 == indexes[i]:
continue
else:
break
new_indexes = [
indexes[j] + (0 if j != i else 1)
for j in range(0, len(lists))]
selectors.append(ListSelector(lists, new_indexes))
if 0 < indexes[i]:
break
return selectors
# This will just return an iterator over all combinations, from smallest
# to largest. It does NOT generate them until needed.
def combinations(lists):
sel = ListSelector(lists, [0 for _ in range(len(lists))])
upcoming = [(sel.value(), sel)]
while len(upcoming):
value, sel = heapq.heappop(upcoming)
yield sel
for next_sel in sel.next_selectors():
heapq.heappush(upcoming, (next_sel.value(), next_sel))
# This just gets the first n of them. (It will return less if less.)
def smallest_n_combinations(n, lists):
i = 0
for sel in combinations(lists):
yield sel
i = i + 1
if i == n:
break
# Example usage
lists = [
[1, 2, 5],
[2, 3, 4],
[1]]
for sel in smallest_n_combinations(3, lists):
print(sel.value(), sel.values(), sel.indexes)
(对于一长串的列表,使用诸如缓存ListSelector内部的值并为新的列表增量计算值等技巧,可以使这一方法更加有效。)