Pythonic implementation of LRU Cache (#4630)

* Added a more pythonic implementation of LRU_Cache.[#4628]

* Added test cases and doctest

* Fixed doc tests

* Added more tests in doctests and fixed return types fixes [#4628]

* better doctests

* added doctests to main()

* Added dutch_national_flag.py in sorts. fixing [#4636]

* Delete dutch_national_flag.py

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* Update lru_cache_pythonic.py

* Remove pontification

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Co-authored-by: Christian Clauss <[email protected]>

Author: yatharthmathur

Diff for: other/lru_cache_pythonic.py

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+"""
+This implementation of LRU Cache uses the in-built Python dictionary (dict) which from
+Python 3.6 onward maintain the insertion order of keys and ensures O(1) operations on
+insert, delete and access. https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#typesmapping
+"""
+from typing import Any, Hashable
+
+
+class LRUCache(dict):
+    def __init__(self, capacity: int) -> None:
+        """
+        Initialize an LRU Cache with given capacity.
+        capacity : int -> the capacity of the LRU Cache
+        >>> cache = LRUCache(2)
+        >>> cache
+        {}
+        """
+        self.remaining: int = capacity
+
+    def get(self, key: Hashable) -> Any:
+        """
+        This method returns the value associated with the key.
+        key : A hashable object that is mapped to a value in the LRU cache.
+        return -> Any object that has been stored as a value in the LRU cache.
+
+        >>> cache = LRUCache(2)
+        >>> cache.put(1,1)
+        >>> cache.get(1)
+        1
+        >>> cache.get(2)
+        Traceback (most recent call last):
+        ...
+        KeyError: '2 not found.'
+        """
+        if key not in self:
+            raise KeyError(f"{key} not found.")
+        val = self.pop(key)  # Pop the key-value and re-insert to maintain the order
+        self[key] = val
+        return val
+
+    def put(self, key: Hashable, value: Any) -> None:
+        """
+        This method puts the value associated with the key provided in the LRU cache.
+        key : A hashable object that is mapped to a value in the LRU cache.
+        value: Any object that is to be associated with the key in the LRU cache.
+        >>> cache = LRUCache(2)
+        >>> cache.put(3,3)
+        >>> cache
+        {3: 3}
+        >>> cache.put(2,2)
+        >>> cache
+        {3: 3, 2: 2}
+        """
+        # To pop the last value inside of the LRU cache
+        if key in self:
+            self.pop(key)
+            self[key] = value
+            return
+
+        if self.remaining > 0:
+            self.remaining -= 1
+        # To pop the least recently used item from the dictionary
+        else:
+            self.pop(next(iter(self)))
+        self[key] = value
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    """Example test case with LRU_Cache of size 2
+    >>> main()
+    1
+    Key=2 not found in cache
+    Key=1 not found in cache
+    3
+    4
+    """
+    cache = LRUCache(2)  # Creates an LRU cache with size 2
+    cache.put(1, 1)  # cache = {1:1}
+    cache.put(2, 2)  # cache = {1:1, 2:2}
+    try:
+        print(cache.get(1))  # Prints 1
+    except KeyError:
+        print("Key not found in cache")
+    cache.put(
+        3, 3
+    )  # cache = {1:1, 3:3} key=2 is evicted because it wasn't used recently
+    try:
+        print(cache.get(2))
+    except KeyError:
+        print("Key=2 not found in cache")  # Prints key not found
+    cache.put(
+        4, 4
+    )  # cache = {4:4, 3:3} key=1 is evicted because it wasn't used recently
+    try:
+        print(cache.get(1))
+    except KeyError:
+        print("Key=1 not found in cache")  # Prints key not found
+    try:
+        print(cache.get(3))  # Prints value 3
+    except KeyError:
+        print("Key not found in cache")
+
+    try:
+        print(cache.get(4))  # Prints value 4
+    except KeyError:
+        print("Key not found in cache")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    import doctest
+
+    doctest.testmod()
+    main()