Union-find data structure implementation

unionFind.py

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"""
Author : Saravana Kumar
E-mail : saran8@gmail.com
Union-find data structure. 
Based on Algorithm from Introduction to Algorithms Book(http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-algorithms), 
"""
from node import Node

class UnionFind(object):

	def __init__(self):
		#To hold the clusters
		self.clusters = []
	
	#create a new set(cluster) with a node
	def makeSet(self,node):
		#set the nodes parent to the node itself
		node.parent = node
		#set initial rank of node to 0
		node.rank = 0
		#add the node to cluster list
		self.clusters.append(node)

	#union the nodeA and nodeB clusters
	def union(self, nodeA, nodeB):
		
		self.link(self.findSet(nodeA), self.findSet(nodeB))
	
	#link the nodeA to nodeB or vice versa based upon the rank(number of nodes in the cluster) of the cluster
	def link(self, nodeA, nodeB):
	
		if nodeA.rank > nodeB.rank:
			nodeB.parent = nodeA
			#remove the nodeB from the cluster list, since it is merged with nodeA
			self.clusters.remove(nodeB)
		else:
			nodeA.parent = nodeB
			#remove the nodeA from the cluster list, since it is merged with nodeB
			self.clusters.remove(nodeA)
			#increade the rank of the cluster after merging the cluster
			if nodeA.rank == nodeB.rank:
				nodeB.rank = nodeB.rank + 1
	#find set will path compress(makes the nodes in cluster points to single leader/parent)  and returns the leader/parent of the cluster 
	def findSet(self, node):
	
		if node != node.parent:
			node.parent = self.findSet(node.parent)
		return node.parent
		
	#get cluster size	
	def clusterSize(self):
		return len(self.clusters)