Circular Array
7.9 Circular Array: Implement a
CircularArray class that supports an array-like data structure which can be efficiently rotated. If possible, the class should use a generic type (also called a template), and should support iteration via the standard for (Obj 0 : circularArray) notation.The Idea: Override/redefine the iterater methods, and maintain a counter that mods off the array size.
Complexity: O(1) retrival methods
class CircularArray:
def __init__(self, ar, start):
"""
:param ar: List[<type>] - iterable list
:param start: [int] - start of iteration, zero indexed
"""
self.ar = ar
self.length = len(ar)
self.iter = start
self.remainder = len(ar)
def __iter__(self):
return self
def __next__(self):
"""
:return: next iterable it exists, otherwise
and exception gets raised
"""
if self.remainder == 0:
raise StopIteration
else:
self.iter += 1
self.remainder -= 1
return self.ar[(self.iter - 1) % self.length]
# interally the exceptions gets caught in the ranged loop
ca = CircularArray([1,2,3,4,5], 2)
for num in ca:
print(num, end=' ')
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