quickSort.py (original)


# quickSort.py
# ------------
# Licensing Information: Please do not distribute or publish solutions to this
# project. You are free to use and extend these projects for educational
# purposes. The Pacman AI projects were developed at UC Berkeley, primarily by
# John DeNero (denero@cs.berkeley.edu) and Dan Klein (klein@cs.berkeley.edu).
# For more info, see http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs188/sp09/pacman.html

def quickSort(lst):
    if len(lst) <= 1: 
        return lst
    smaller = [x for x in lst[1:] if x < lst[0]]
    larger = [x for x in lst[1:] if x >= lst[0]]
    return quickSort(smaller) + [lst[0]] + quickSort(larger)

# Main Function
if __name__ == '__main__':    
    lst = [2,4,5,1]
    print quickSort(lst)