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list rotation experiments
"""Toy code for
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2150108/efficient-way-to-shift-a-list-in-python
Example results of timeAll on my system with Python 2.6.4:
{'shiftCopy': 50.579999999999984,
'shiftExtend': 3.4200000000000017,
'shiftInPlace': 3.4099999999999966,
'shifted': 95.409999999999997}
"""
def newList():
"""Make a list with around a hundred thousand strings."""
l = open("/usr/share/dict/words").readlines()
return l
def shiftInPlace(l, n):
"""Shift the list in place."""
n = n % len(l)
head = l[:n]
l[:n] = []
l.extend(head)
return l
def shiftExtend(l, n):
"""Shift the list in place, without a temp variable.
"""
n = n % len(l)
# No temp variable, but the list is of length
# l+n for a while.
l.extend(l[:n])
l[:n] = []
return l
def shifted(l, n):
"""Shift and return a new list."""
n = n % len(l)
return l[n:] + l[:n]
def shiftCopy(l, n):
"""Shift and return a new list,
using extend instead of add.
"""
# first make a copy of the list so we don't mutate
# our argument.
l = l[:]
# implementation below is same as shiftInPlace
n = n % len(l)
head = l[:n]
l[:n] = []
l.extend(head)
return l
ALL_FUNCS = [
shifted,
shiftExtend,
shiftInPlace,
shiftCopy
]
def testShift(f):
"""basic sanity check."""
l = range(10)
expected = [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, 1]
result = f(l, 2)
assert result == expected, "%s: %s" % (f.func_name,
result)
def testAll():
for func in ALL_FUNCS:
print func.func_name,
testShift(func)
print "OK"
def timedemo(f, count=10000, by=4):
l = newList()
import os
start = os.times()[0]
for i in xrange(count):
l = f(l, by)
end = os.times()[0]
return end - start
def timeAll():
results = {}
for func in ALL_FUNCS:
length = timedemo(func)
results[func.func_name] = length
return results
if __name__ == '__main__':
import pprint
results = timeAll()
pprint.pprint(results)
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