"""
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadth-first_search
pseudo-code:
breadth_first_search(graph G, start vertex s):
// all nodes initially unexplored
mark s as explored
let Q = queue data structure, initialized with s
while Q is non-empty:
remove the first node of Q, call it v
for each edge(v, w): // for w in graph[v]
if w unexplored:
mark w as explored
add w to Q (at the end)
"""
from __future__ import annotations
G = {
"A": ["B", "C"],
"B": ["A", "D", "E"],
"C": ["A", "F"],
"D": ["B"],
"E": ["B", "F"],
"F": ["C", "E"],
}
def breadth_first_search(graph: dict, start: str) -> set[str]:
"""
>>> ''.join(sorted(breadth_first_search(G, 'A')))
'ABCDEF'
"""
explored = {start}
queue = [start]
while queue:
v = queue.pop(0)
for w in graph[v]:
if w not in explored:
explored.add(w)
queue.append(w)
return explored
if __name__ == "__main__":
print(breadth_first_search(G, "A"))