"""DFS.py Algorithms for depth first search in Python. We need to search iteratively rather than recursively in order to avoid Python's low recursion limit. D. Eppstein, July 2004. """ # Types of edges in DFS traversal. # The numerical values are used in DepthFirstSearcher, change with care. forward = 1 # traversing edge (v,w) from v to w reverse = -1 # returning backwards on (v,w) from w to v nontree = 0 # edge (v,w) is not part of the DFS tree whole_graph = object() # special flag object, do not use as a graph vertex def search(G,initial_vertex = whole_graph): """ Generate sequence of triples (v,w,edgetype) for DFS of graph G. The subsequence for each root of each tree in the DFS forest starts with (root,root,forward) and ends with (root,root,reverse). If the initial vertex is given, it is used as the root and vertices not reachable from it are not searched. """ visited = set() if initial_vertex == whole_graph: initials = G else: initials = [initial_vertex] for v in initials: if v not in visited: yield v,v,forward visited.add(v) stack = [(v,iter(G[v]))] while stack: parent,children = stack[-1] try: child = children.next() if child in visited: yield parent,child,nontree else: yield parent,child,forward visited.add(child) stack.append((child,iter(G[child]))) except StopIteration: stack.pop() if stack: yield stack[-1][0],parent,reverse yield v,v,reverse def preorder(G,initial_vertex = whole_graph): """Generate all vertices of graph G in depth-first preorder.""" for v,w,edgetype in search(G,initial_vertex): if edgetype is forward: yield w def postorder(G,initial_vertex = whole_graph): """Generate all vertices of graph G in depth-first postorder.""" for v,w,edgetype in search(G,initial_vertex): if edgetype is reverse: yield w def reachable(G,v,w): """Can we get from v to w in graph G?""" return w in preorder(G,v) class Searcher: """ Handler for performing general depth first searches of graphs. Some or all of the routines preorder, postorder, and backedge should be shadowed in order to make the search do something useful. """ def preorder(self,parent,child): """ Called when DFS visits child, before visiting all grandchildren. Parent==child when child is the root of each DFS tree. """ pass def postorder(self,parent,child): """ Called when DFS visits child, after visiting all grandchildren. Parent==child when child is the root of each DFS tree. """ pass def backedge(self,source,destination): """Called when DFS discovers an edge to a non-child.""" pass def __init__(self,G): """Perform a depth first search of graph G.""" dispatch = [self.backedge,self.preorder,self.postorder] for v,w,edgetype in search(G): dispatch[edgetype](v,w)