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# Copyright 2015 The Chromium OS Authors. All rights reserved.
# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
# found in the LICENSE file.
# Utilities for operations on sequences / lists
def lcs_length(x, y):
"""
Computes the length of a Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) of x and y.
Algorithm adapted from "Introduction to Algorithms" - CLRS.
@param x: list, one sequence
@param y: list, the other sequence
"""
m = len(x)
n = len(y)
c = dict() # Use dictionary as a 2D array, keys are tuples
for i in range(m + 1):
c[i, 0] = 0
for j in range(n + 1):
c[0, j] = 0
for i in range(1, m + 1):
for j in range(1, n + 1):
if x[i - 1] == y[j - 1]:
c[i, j] = c[i - 1, j - 1] + 1
else:
c[i, j] = max(c[i - 1, j], c[i, j - 1])
return c[m, n]