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AnderssonTree Package
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Abstract
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This package provides Andersson Tree implementation written in pure Python.
Sources of Algorithms
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andersson_tree
http://user.it.uu.se/~arnea/abs/simp.html
http://eternallyconfuzzled.com/tuts/datastructures/jsw_tut_andersson.aspx
Some concepts are inspired by bintrees package at
http://bitbucket.org/mozman/bintrees, although this implementation does not
support dict, heap, set compatibility.
Constructor
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* AnderssonTree() -> new empty tree;
* AnderssonTree(mapping) -> new tree initialized from a mapping (requires only an items() method)
* AnderssonTree(seq) -> new tree initialized from seq [(k1, v1), (k2, v2), ... (kn, vn)]
Methods
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* __contains__(k) -> True if T has a key k, else False
* __delitem__(y) <==> del T[y]
* __getitem__(y) <==> T[y]
* __iter__() <==> iter(T) <==> keys()
* __len__() <==> len(T)
* __repr__() <==> repr(T)
* __reversed__() <==> reversed(T), reversed keys
* __setitem__(k, v) <==> T[k] = v
* __copy__() <==> copy()
* clear() -> None, remove all items from T
* copy() -> a shallow copy of T, tree structure, i.e. key insertion order is preserved
* dump([order]) -> None, dumps tree according to order
* get(k) -> T[k] if k in T, else None
* insert(k, v) -> None, insert node with key k and value v, replace value if key exists
* is_empty() -> True if len(T) == 0
* iter_items([, reverse]) -> generator for (k, v) items of T
* keys([reverse]) -> generator for keys of T
* remove(key) -> None, remove item by key
* remove_items(keys) -> None, remove items by keys
* root() -> root node
* traverse(f, [order]) -> visit all nodes of tree according to order and call f(node) for each node
* update(E) -> None. Update T from dict/iterable E
* values([reverse]) -> generator for values of T
Order values
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* ORDER_INFIX_LEFT_RIGHT - infix order, left child first, then right
* ORDER_INFIX_RIGHT_LEFT - infix order, right child first, then left
* ORDER_PREFIX_LEFT_RIGHT - prefix order, left child first, then right
* ORDER_PREFIX_RIGHT_LEFT - prefix order, right child first, then left
* ORDER_POSTFIX_LEFT_RIGHT - postfix order, left child first, then right
* ORDER_POSTFIX_RIGHT_LEFT - postfix order, right child first, then left
Installation
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from source::
python setup.py install
or from PyPI::
pip install anderssontree
Documentation
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this README.rst, code itself, docstrings
anderssontree can be found on github.com at:
https://github.com/darko-poljak/andersontree
Tested With
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Python2.7.5, Python3.3.2