Popular recipes tagged "recursive" but not "algorithm"http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/recursive-algorithm/2013-01-05T05:49:27-08:00ActiveState Code RecipesTraverse dotted attribute of an object using built-in function reduce (Python) 2013-01-05T05:49:27-08:00Chaobin Tang (唐超斌)http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4174076/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578398-traverse-dotted-attribute-of-an-object-using-built/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578398 by <a href="/recipes/users/4174076/">Chaobin Tang (唐超斌)</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/attributes/">attributes</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/bif/">bif</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/recursive/">recursive</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reduce/">reduce</a>). </p> <p>Making good use of reduce() to traverse dotted attribute of an object.</p> Recursively walk Python objects (Python) 2011-12-23T22:10:38-08:00Yaniv Akninhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4180246/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577982-recursively-walk-python-objects/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 577982 by <a href="/recipes/users/4180246/">Yaniv Aknin</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/container/">container</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/recursive/">recursive</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/recursive_iterator/">recursive_iterator</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/walk/">walk</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>A small function that walks over pretty much any Python object and yields the objects contained within (if any) along with the path to reach them. I wrote it and am using it to validate a deserialized data-structure, but you can probably use it for many things.</p> Recursively defined, Haskell-style infinite lists (Python) 2012-05-04T14:09:14-07:00John Crichtonhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4181975/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578119-recursively-defined-haskell-style-infinite-lists/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578119 by <a href="/recipes/users/4181975/">John Crichton</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/decorator/">decorator</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/functional/">functional</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/generator/">generator</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/infinite/">infinite</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/itertools/">itertools</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/lazy/">lazy</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/recursive/">recursive</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>A decorator to simplify the creation of recursively defined, Haskell-style infinite lists -- ie. recursive generators -- inspired by Raymond Hettinger's "Technique for cyclical iteration" [*]. </p> <p>[*] <a href="http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576961-technique-for-cyclical-iteration/" rel="nofollow">http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576961-technique-for-cyclical-iteration/</a> </p> Simple recursive function to non-recursive function (Python) 2011-05-27T01:47:37-07:00Sunjay Varmahttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4174115/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577724-simple-recursive-function-to-non-recursive-functio/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 577724 by <a href="/recipes/users/4174115/">Sunjay Varma</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/function/">function</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/list/">list</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/recursive/">recursive</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/substitute/">substitute</a>). </p> <p>This recipe is a simple solution for turning a recursive function into a non-recursive function.</p>