Dijkstra's algorithm in python

Question

I am trying to implement Dijkstra\'s algorithm in python using arrays. This is my implementation.

def extract(Q, w):
    m=0
    minimum=w[0]
    for i in range(l         


        

Answer 1

Implementation based on CLRS 2nd Ed. Chapter 24.3

d is deltas, p is predecessors

import heapq

def dijkstra(g, s, t):

    q = []
    d = {k: sys.maxint for k in g.keys()}
    p = {}

    d[s] = 0 
    heapq.heappush(q, (0, s))

    while q:
        last_w, curr_v = heapq.heappop(q)
        for n, n_w in g[curr_v]:
            cand_w = last_w + n_w # equivalent to d[curr_v] + n_w 
            # print d # uncomment to see how deltas are updated
            if cand_w < d[n]:
                d[n] = cand_w
                p[n] = curr_v
                heapq.heappush(q, (cand_w, n))

    print "predecessors: ", p 
    print "delta: ", d 
    return d[t]

def test():

    og = {}
    og["s"] = [("t", 10), ("y", 5)]
    og["t"] = [("y", 2), ("x", 1)]
    og["y"] = [("t", 3), ("x", 9), ("z", 2)]
    og["z"] = [("x", 6), ("s", 7)]
    og["x"] = [("z", 4)]

    assert dijkstra(og, "s", "x") == 9 


if __name__ == "__main__":
    test()

Implementation assumes all nodes are represented as keys. If say node(e.g "x" in the example above) was not defined as a key in the og, deltas d would be missing that key and check if cand_w < d[n] wouldn't work correctly.