gen-tries 0.1.4

Generalized trie implementation

gen-tries

Name

gen-tries

Description

A generalized trie implementation for python 3.10 or later that provides classes and functions to create and manipulate a generalized trie data structure.

Unlike many Trie implementations which only support strings as keys and token match only at the character level, it is agnostic as to the types of tokens used to key it and thus far more general purpose.

It requires only that the indexed tokens be hashable (this means that the have eq and hash methods). This is verified at runtime using the gentrie.Hashable protocol.

Tokens in a key do NOT have to all be the same type as long as they can be compared for equality.

Note that objects of user-defined classes are Hashable by default, but this may not work as naively expected unless they are immutable.

It can handle Sequences of Hashable conforming objects as keys for the trie out of the box.

As long as the tokens returned by a sequence are hashable, it largely 'just works'.

You can 'mix and match' types of objects used as token in a key as long as they all conform to the Hashable protocol.

Usage

Example 1:

from gentrie import GeneralizedTrie, TrieEntry

trie = GeneralizedTrie()
trie.add(['ape', 'green', 'apple'])
trie.add(['ape', 'green'])
matches: set[TrieEntry] = trie.prefixes(['ape', 'green'])
print(matches)

Example 1 Output:

{TrieEntry(ident=2, key=['ape', 'green'])}}

Example 2:

from gentrie import GeneralizedTrie, TrieEntry

# Create a trie to store website URLs
url_trie = GeneralizedTrie()

# Add some URLs with different components (protocol, domain, path)
url_trie.add(["https", "com", "example", "www", "/", "products", "clothing"])
url_trie.add(["http", "org", "example", "blog", "/", "2023", "10", "best-laptops"])
url_trie.add(["ftp", "net", "example", "ftp", "/", "data", "images"])

# Find all https URLs with "example.com" domain
suffixes: set[TrieEntry] = url_trie.suffixes(["https", "com", "example"])
print(suffixes)

Example 2 Output:

{TrieEntry(ident=1, key=['https', 'com', 'example', 'www', '/', 'products', 'clothing'])}

Example 3:

from gentrie import GeneralizedTrie, TrieEntry

trie = GeneralizedTrie()
trie.add('abcdef')
trie.add('abc')
trie.add('qrf')
matches: set[TrieEntry] = trie.suffixes('ab')
print(matches)

Example 3 Output:

{TrieEntry(ident=2, key='abc'), TrieEntry(ident=1, key='abcdef')}

Authors and acknowledgment

• Jerilyn Franz

Copyright

Copyright 2025 Jerilyn Franz

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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