Paddy wrote: > Hi, I do agree with > Raymond H. about the relative merits of cmp= and key= in > sort/sorted, but I decided to also not let natural uses of cmp= pass > silently. > > In answering this question, http://stackoverflow.com/a/26850434/10562 > about ordering subject to inequalities it seemed natural to use the cmp= > argument of sort rather than key=. > > The question is about merging given inequalities to make 1 inequality such > that the inequalities also stays true. > > > Here is a copy of my code: > > Python 2.7.5 (default, May 15 2013, 22:43:36) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] > on win32 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. >>>> ineq = """f4 > f2 > f3 > f4 > f1 > f3 > f4 > f2 > f1 > f2 > f1 > f3""" >>>> print(ineq) > f4 > f2 > f3 > f4 > f1 > f3 > f4 > f2 > f1 > f2 > f1 > f3 >>>> greater_thans, all_f = set(), set() >>>> for line in ineq.split('\n'): > ....tokens = line.strip().split()[::2] > ....for n, t1 in enumerate(tokens[:-1]): > ........for t2 in tokens[n+1:]: > ............greater_thans.add((t1, t2)) > ............all_f.add(t1) > ........all_f.add(t2) > > >>>> sorted(all_f, cmp=lambda t1, t2: 0 if t1==t2 else > ...........(1 if (t1, t2) not in greater_thans else -1)) > ['f4', 'f2', 'f1', 'f3'] >>>>
I'm not sure this works. I tried: $ cat paddy.py ineq = """f4 > f2 > f3 f4 > f1 > f3 f4 > f2 > f1 f2 > f1 > f3 f3 > f5 """ greater_thans = set() all_f = set() for line in ineq.split('\n'): tokens = line.strip().split()[::2] for n, t1 in enumerate(tokens[:-1]): for t2 in tokens[n+1:]: greater_thans.add((t1, t2)) all_f.add(t1) all_f.add(t2) print all_f print greater_thans print sorted(all_f, cmp=lambda t1, t2: 0 if t1==t2 else (1 if (t1, t2) not in greater_thans else -1)) $ PYTHONHASHSEED=0 python paddy.py set(['f1', 'f2', 'f3', 'f4', 'f5']) set([('f1', 'f3'), ('f2', 'f1'), ('f2', 'f3'), ('f4', 'f3'), ('f4', 'f2'), ('f4', 'f1'), ('f3', 'f5')]) ['f4', 'f2', 'f1', 'f3', 'f5'] $ PYTHONHASHSEED=1 python paddy.py set(['f5', 'f4', 'f3', 'f2', 'f1']) set([('f1', 'f3'), ('f2', 'f3'), ('f2', 'f1'), ('f4', 'f1'), ('f3', 'f5'), ('f4', 'f3'), ('f4', 'f2')]) ['f5', 'f4', 'f2', 'f1', 'f3'] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list