RosettaCodeData/Task/Huffman-coding/Python/huffman-coding.py

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from heapq import heappush, heappop, heapify
from collections import defaultdict
def encode(symb2freq):
"""Huffman encode the given dict mapping symbols to weights"""
heap = [[wt, [sym, ""]] for sym, wt in symb2freq.items()]
heapify(heap)
while len(heap) > 1:
lo = heappop(heap)
hi = heappop(heap)
for pair in lo[1:]:
pair[1] = '0' + pair[1]
for pair in hi[1:]:
pair[1] = '1' + pair[1]
heappush(heap, [lo[0] + hi[0]] + lo[1:] + hi[1:])
return sorted(heappop(heap)[1:], key=lambda p: (len(p[-1]), p))
txt = "this is an example for huffman encoding"
symb2freq = defaultdict(int)
for ch in txt:
symb2freq[ch] += 1
# in Python 3.1+:
# symb2freq = collections.Counter(txt)
huff = encode(symb2freq)
print "Symbol\tWeight\tHuffman Code"
for p in huff:
print "%s\t%s\t%s" % (p[0], symb2freq[p[0]], p[1])