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How to Do a Binary Search in Python
How to Do a Binary Search in Python
by Bartosz Zaczyński Mar 16, 2020 2 Comments intermediate python
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Table of Contents
Benchmarking
Download IMDb
Read Tab-Separated Values
Measure the Execution Time
Understanding Search Algorithms
Random Search
Linear Search
Binary Search
Hash-Based Search
Using the bisect Module
Finding an Element
Inserting a New Element
Implementing Binary Search in Python
Iteratively
Recursively
Covering Tricky Details
Integer Overflow
Stack Overflow
Duplicate Elements
Floating-Point Rounding
Analyzing the Time-Space Complexity of Binary Search
Time-Space Complexity
The Big O Notation
The Complexity of Binary Search
Conclusion
Binary search is a classic algorithm in computer science. It often comes up in programming contests and technical interviews. Implementing binary search turns out to be a challenging task, even when you understand the concept. Unless you’re curious or have a specific assignment, you should always leverage existing libraries to do a binary search in Python or any other language.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to:
Use the bisect module to do a binary search in Python
Implement a binary search in Python both recursively and iteratively
Recognize and fix defects in a binary search Python implementation
Analyze the time-space complexity of the binary search algorithm
Search even faster than binary search
Step-by-step explanation: