# Generate all possible single-root message thread structures of size # argv[1]. Each output line is a thread structure, where the n'th # field is either a number giving the parent of message n or "None" # for the root. import sys from itertools import chain, combinations def subsets(s): return chain.from_iterable(combinations(s, r) for r in range(len(s)+1)) nodes = set(range(int(sys.argv[1]))) # Queue of (tree, free, to_expand) where tree is a {node: parent} # dictionary, free is a set of unattached nodes, and to_expand is # itself a queue of nodes in the tree that need to be expanded. # The queue starts with all single-node trees. queue = [({root: None}, nodes - {root}, (root,)) for root in nodes] # Process queue while queue: tree, free, to_expand = queue.pop() if len(to_expand) == 0: # Only print full-sized trees if len(free) == 0: print(" ".join(map(str, [msg[1] for msg in sorted(tree.items())]))) else: # Expand node to_expand[0] with each possible set of children for children in subsets(free): ntree = {child: to_expand[0] for child in children} ntree.update(tree) nfree = free.difference(children) queue.append((ntree, nfree, to_expand[1:] + tuple(children)))