题目:
Given a set of distinct integers, S, return all possible subsets.
Note:
- Elements in a subset must be in non-descending order.
- The solution set must not contain duplicate subsets.
For example,
If S =[1,2,3], a solution is:[ [3], [1], [2], [1,2,3], [1,3], [2,3], [1,2], [] ]
那么有几种情况呢,如果给你的数字长度为n的话,那么首先是空数组1;选一个呢,为n个;如此下去,一个的个数为2^n个子数组。
这里给出一个java代码:
import java.util.*; public class Solution { public List-
> subsets(int[] S) {
int totalLength = 1<
> l = new ArrayList -
>(); Arrays.sort(S);//数组进行排序 for (int i=0;i
tmp = new ArrayList (); for(int j=0;j > j) & 1 )!= 0){ //将s[n]分别用二进制的n-1位代替 tmp.add(S[j]); } } l.add(tmp); } return l; } //测试主函数 public static void main(String[] args) { int[] array = {1,2,3}; Solution s = new Solution(); System.out.println(s.subsets(array)); } }
可能一下在看不懂上面的代码,特别是下面这段代码的意思。if(((i >> j) & 1 )!= 0)
看一个图,如下

上图中以S=[1 2 3 4]为例子,可以看到一个规律,就是在前面所有的subset的最后再添加一个位数,就成了新生成的subset。<??http://www.2cto.com/kf/ware/vc/" target="_blank" class="keylink">vcD4KPHA+u/LV36OsztLDx7zytaW1xNK7wO294s6qo6xzWzBdtPrC67b+vLbWxsr919bX7rrz0rvOu86qMaOsc1sxXbT6wuu2/r341sbK/dfWtbnK/bXatv7Ou86qMaOsyOe0y8/CyKWhozwvcD4KPHA+yOfJz8281tCjrLW5yv212rb+uPZzdWJzZXTOqlsyIDMgNF2jrMTHw7TV4rT6se3Xxcbk08O2/ry21sax7cq+zqoxMTEwID0gMTQg1eK6w8rHxuTN4s6nyv3X6bXEz8Kx6qOs1eLR+bK7xNzA7b3iyc/D5sHQs/a1xMTHuPa2zrT6wuvBy6Oou/LV38jnz8KjqTwvcD4KPHA+PC9wPgo8cHJlIGNsYXNzPQ=="brush:java;"> if(((i >> j) & 1 )!= 0)
由上面图中的原理,这样就比较好的理解下面的python代码了:
def subset1(S): A=[[]] S.sort() for n in S: for i in range(len(A)): ss = A[i][:] ss.append(n) A.append(ss) return A
下面的python在原理上再效率上会有所提高:
def subset2(S): res = [[]] S.sort() for n in S: res = res + [x + [n] for x in res] return res