Revision: 6740 Author: nicdumz Date: 2009-04-27 15:41:56 +0000 (Mon, 27 Apr 2009)
Log Message: ----------- #2782025 : [sorting of possibilities] Falling back to lists for the values of PageTree.tree to keep order. Adding a lengthy comment explaining the reason of that implementation choice: yes, using dicts would be faster, but no, we can't.
Modified Paths: -------------- trunk/pywikipedia/interwiki.py
Modified: trunk/pywikipedia/interwiki.py =================================================================== --- trunk/pywikipedia/interwiki.py 2009-04-27 15:21:01 UTC (rev 6739) +++ trunk/pywikipedia/interwiki.py 2009-04-27 15:41:56 UTC (rev 6740) @@ -508,6 +508,26 @@ Allows filtering efficiently by Site. """ def __init__(self): + # self.tree : + # Dictionary: + # keys: Site + # values: list of pages + # All pages found within Site are kept in + # self.tree[site] + + # While using dict values would be faster for + # the remove() operation, + # keeping list values is important, because + # the order in which the pages were found matters: + # the earlier a page is found, the closer it is to the + # Subject.originPage. Chances are that pages found within + # 2 interwiki distance from the originPage are more related + # to the original topic than pages found later on, after + # 3, 4, 5 or more interwiki hops. + + # Keeping this order is hence important to display ordered + # list of pages to the user when he'll be asked to resolve + # conflicts. self.tree = {} self.size = 0
@@ -527,15 +547,15 @@ def add(self, page): site = page.site() if not site in self.tree: - self.tree[site] = {} - self.tree[site][page] = True + self.tree[site] = [] + self.tree[site].append(page) self.size += 1
def remove(self, page): try: - del self.tree[page.site()][page] + self.tree[page.site()].remove(page) self.size -= 1 - except KeyError: + except ValueError: pass
def removeSite(self, site): @@ -556,8 +576,8 @@ yield site, len(d)
def __iter__(self): - for site, d in self.tree.iteritems(): - for page in d: + for site, plist in self.tree.iteritems(): + for page in plist: yield page
class Subject(object):