Find height, width of the largest rectangle containing all 0's in the matrix

dp.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""Find height, width of the largest rectangle containing all 0's in the matrix.

The algorithm for `max_size()` is suggested by @j_random_hacker [1].
The algorithm for `max_rectangle_size()` is from [2].
The Python implementation [3] is dual licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
and ISC license.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2478447/find-largest-rectangle-containing-only-zeros-in-an-nn-binary-matrix#comment5169734_4671342

[2]: http://blog.csdn.net/arbuckle/archive/2006/05/06/710988.aspx

[3]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/4671342

Copyright (c) 2014, zed <isidore.john.r@gmail.com>

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"""
from collections import namedtuple
from operator import mul

try:
    reduce = reduce
except NameError:
    from functools import reduce # py3k

Info = namedtuple('Info', 'start height')

def max_size(mat, value=0):
    """Find height, width of the largest rectangle containing all `value`'s.

    For each row solve "Largest Rectangle in a Histrogram" problem [1]:

    [1]: http://blog.csdn.net/arbuckle/archive/2006/05/06/710988.aspx
    """
    it = iter(mat)
    hist = [(el==value) for el in next(it, [])]
    max_size = max_rectangle_size(hist)
    for row in it:
        hist = [(1+h) if el == value else 0 for h, el in zip(hist, row)]
        max_size = max(max_size, max_rectangle_size(hist), key=area)
    return max_size

def max_rectangle_size(histogram):
    """Find height, width of the largest rectangle that fits entirely under
    the histogram.

    >>> f = max_rectangle_size
    >>> f([5,3,1])
    (3, 2)
    >>> f([1,3,5])
    (3, 2)
    >>> f([3,1,5])
    (5, 1)
    >>> f([4,8,3,2,0])
    (3, 3)
    >>> f([4,8,3,1,1,0])
    (3, 3)
    >>> f([1,2,1])
    (1, 3)

    Algorithm is "Linear search using a stack of incomplete subproblems" [1].

    [1]: http://blog.csdn.net/arbuckle/archive/2006/05/06/710988.aspx
    """
    stack = []
    top = lambda: stack[-1]
    max_size = (0, 0) # height, width of the largest rectangle
    pos = 0 # current position in the histogram
    for pos, height in enumerate(histogram):
        start = pos # position where rectangle starts
        while True:
            if not stack or height > top().height:
                stack.append(Info(start, height)) # push
            elif stack and height < top().height:
                max_size = max(max_size, (top().height, (pos - top().start)),
                               key=area)
                start, _ = stack.pop()
                continue
            break # height == top().height goes here

    pos += 1
    for start, height in stack:
        max_size = max(max_size, (height, (pos - start)), key=area)

    return max_size

def area(size):
    return reduce(mul, size)

import unittest
class TestCase(unittest.TestCase):
    def test(self):
        self.assertEqual(max_size(self.__s2m("""
        0 0 0 0 1 0
        0 0 1 0 0 1
        0 0 0 0 0 0
        1 0 0 0 0 0
        0 0 0 0 0 1
        0 0 1 0 0 0""")), (3, 4))
        self.assertEqual(max_size([[1, 1], [0, 0]]), (1, 2))
        self.assertEqual(max_size([[0, 0], [1, 1]]), (1, 2))
        self.assertEqual(max_size([[1, 0], [1, 0]]), (2, 1))
        self.assertEqual(max_size([[0, 1], [0, 1]]), (2, 1))
        self.assertEqual(max_size(self.__s2m("""
        0 0 0 0 1 0
        0 0 1 0 0 1
        0 0 0 0 0 0
        1 0 0 0 0 0
        0 0 0 0 0 1
        0 0 1 0 0 0
        0 0 0 0 0 0
        0 0 0 0 0 0""")), (7, 2))
        self.assertEqual(max_size([[]]), (0, 0))
        self.assertEqual(max_size([]), (0, 0))
        self.assertEqual(max_size(self.__s2m("""
        0 0 0 0 1 0
        0 0 1 0 0 1
        0 0 0 0 0 0
        1 0 0 0 0 0
        0 0 0 0 0 0
        0 0 1 0 0 1
        0 0 0 0 0 0
        0 0 0 0 0 0""")), (3, 5))
        self.assertEqual(max_size(self.__s2m("""
        0 0 0 0 1 0
        0 0 0 0 0 0
        0 0 1 0 0 1
        0 0 0 0 0 0
        1 0 0 0 0 0
        0 0 0 0 0 0
        0 0 1 0 0 1
        0 0 0 0 0 0
        0 0 0 0 0 1""")), (8, 2))
        self.assertEqual(max_size(self.__s2m("""
        0 0 0 0 1 1 1
        0 0 0 0 0 0 0
        0 0 0 1 1 1 1
        0 0 1 1 1 1 1
        1 0 1 1 1 1 1
        1 0 1 1 1 1 1
        1 0 1 1 1 1 1
        """)), (3, 3))

    def __s2m(self, s):
        return [map(int, line.split())
                for line in s.splitlines() if line.strip()]

if __name__=="__main__":
    import unittest; unittest.main()

I got the rather surprising result with the following test case:

print zheights 
array([[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 2],
   [0, 4, 0, 2, 4, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0],
   [1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0, 0, 4],
   [0, 0, 0, 0, 4, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   [0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
   [4, 3, 0, 0, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   [3, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 4],
   [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 3, 2, 4, 3, 2],
   [0, 3, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0],
   [0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0]])

max_size(zheights, value=0)
(True, 8)

---

I added this to the bottom of the max_size function:

row_length = np.sum(max_size[0])
column_length = np.sum(max_size[1])
return (row_length, column_length)

True == 1 in Python i.e., the result is correct.
Boolean appears due to how the histogram is initialized: hist = [(el==value) for el in next(it, [])].

Even if the function had used numpy it is unclear why would you call np.sum() on an scalar integer result.

>>> isinstance(True, int)
True
>>> True+0
1