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Find all supersets of a collection
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collection = [{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}, | |
{1, 2}, | |
{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}, | |
{3, 4, 8}, | |
{3, 4, 11}, | |
{3}, | |
{3}, | |
{12}, | |
{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}, | |
{1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9}, | |
{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8}, | |
{3, 5, 10}] | |
sizes = set() | |
for i in collection: | |
sizes.add(len(i)) | |
sizes = sorted(sizes, reverse=True) | |
X = dict() | |
for s in sizes: | |
X[s] = [] | |
for s in collection: | |
X[len(s)].append(s) | |
for reference_size in sizes: | |
for reference_set in X[reference_size]: | |
for s in sizes: | |
if s == reference_size: | |
X[s][:] = [x for x in X[s] if not x.issubset(reference_set)] +\ | |
[reference_set] | |
if s < reference_size: | |
X[s][:] = [x for x in X[s] if not x.issubset(reference_set)] | |
updated_collection = [] | |
for s in X: | |
updated_collection += X[s] |
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