这种划分在快速排序中也用到了:
#py2.7 #coding:utf-8 import random def findkth(ll, k): if k > len(ll): raise Exception('Argument error') else: pivot = ll[random.randrange(0,len(ll))] last = 0 for i in range(1, len(ll)): if ll[i] >= pivot: last += 1 swap(ll, i, last) swap(ll, 0, last) print(ll,k) order = last+1 if order == k: return pivot elif order < k: return findkth(ll[last + 1:], k - order) else: return findkth(ll[0:last], k) def swap(ll, i, last): tmp = ll[i] ll[i] = ll[last] ll[last] = tmp ll = [1, 22, 31, 14, 0.5, 26, 17, 38, 19, 310] k = 3 print(findkth(ll, k))