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Program to findout the maximum weight of the tree
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''' | |
@author: A_Muneer | |
''' | |
import sys | |
#file_name = 'tri.txt' | |
def get_tree(file_name): | |
with open(file_name) as myfile: | |
return [line.strip().split() for line in myfile if line.strip()] | |
def greater(params): | |
if len(params) == 1: | |
return int(params[0]) | |
else: | |
a, b = [int(x) for x in params] | |
return a if a>b else b | |
def max_weight(tree, idx=0): | |
#print "Tree now is: \n", tree | |
try: | |
#tree[1] to check for single element row. | |
next_row, next_tree = tree [1], tree[1:] | |
except: | |
return greater(tree[0][idx:idx+2])#base of the tree | |
else: | |
row = tree[0] | |
weight = int(row[idx]) + greater([max_weight(next_tree, idx), | |
max_weight(next_tree, idx+1)]) | |
return weight | |
def get_max_weight(file_name): | |
tree = get_tree(file_name) | |
return max_weight(tree) | |
if __name__ == '__main__': | |
file_name = sys.argv[1] | |
print get_max_weight(file_name) |
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