Chapter 17. Algorithms

Section 17.1.  Introduction

Section 17.2.  Testing if a Variable Is Defined

Section 17.3.  Evaluating Predicate Tests Across Sequences

Section 17.4.  Removing Duplicates from a Sequence

Section 17.5.  Removing Duplicates from a Sequence While Maintaining Sequence Order

Section 17.6.  Simulating the Ternary Operator in Python

Section 17.7.  Counting Items and Sorting by Incidence (Histograms)

Section 17.8.  Memoizing (Caching) the Return Values of Functions

Section 17.9.  Looking Up Words by Sound Similarity

Section 17.10.  Computing Factorials with lambda

Section 17.11.  Generating the Fibonacci Sequence

Section 17.12.  Wrapping an Unbounded Iterator to Restrict Its Output

Section 17.13.  Operating on Iterators

Section 17.14.  Rolling Dice

Section 17.15.  Implementing a First-In First-Out Container

Section 17.16.  Modeling a Priority Queue

Section 17.17.  Converting Numbers to Rationals via Farey Fractions

Section 17.18.  Evaluating a Polynomial

Section 17.19.  Module: Finding the Convex Hull of a Set of 2D Points

Section 17.20.  Module: Parsing a String into a Date/Time Object Portably