为什么不看看bisect_left/right的代码并调整它以适合您的目的呢?

是这样的:

def binary_search(a, x, lo=0, hi=None):
    if hi is None:
        hi = len(a)
    while lo < hi:
        mid = (lo+hi)//2
        midval = a[mid]
        if midval < x:
            lo = mid+1
        elif midval > x: 
            hi = mid
        else:
            return mid
    return -1

如果你只是想看看它是否存在，试着把这个列表变成一个词典:

# Generate a list
l = [n*n for n in range(1000)]

# Convert to dict - doesn't matter what you map values to
d = dict((x, 1) for x in l)

count = 0
for n in range(1000000):
    # Compare with "if n in l"
    if n in d:
        count += 1

在我的机器上，“if n in l”需要37秒，而“if n in d”需要0.4秒。

这有点跑题了(因为Moe的回答似乎完整地回答了OP的问题)，但从头到尾考虑整个过程的复杂性可能是值得的。如果你把东西存储在一个排序的列表中(这是二进制搜索会有帮助的地方)，然后只是检查是否存在，你会遇到(最坏情况，除非指定):

排序的列表

O(n log n)来初始创建列表(如果它是未排序的数据。O(n)，如果是排序的) O(log n)次查找(这是二分查找部分) O(n)插入/删除(可能是O(1)或O(log n)平均情况，这取决于您的模式)

而使用set()则会导致

O(n)来创造 O(1)查找 O(1)插入/删除

一个排序列表真正让你得到的是“下一个”，“前一个”和“范围”(包括插入或删除范围)，它们是O(1)或O(|范围|)，给定一个起始索引。如果你不经常使用这些类型的操作，那么存储为集合，排序显示可能是一个更好的整体交易。Set()在python中只会引起很少的额外开销。

使用dict不会使内存使用量翻倍，除非你存储的对象非常小，因为这些值只是指向实际对象的指针:

>>> a = 'foo'
>>> b = [a]
>>> c = [a]
>>> b[0] is c[0]
True

在这个例子中，'foo'只存储了一次。这对你有影响吗?我们到底要谈多少项呢?

最简单的方法是使用对半分割，然后检查一个位置，看看项目是否在那里:

def binary_search(a,x,lo=0,hi=-1):
    i = bisect(a,x,lo,hi)
    if i == 0:
        return -1
    elif a[i-1] == x:
        return i-1
    else:
        return -1

Bisect_left找到在给定的排序范围内插入元素的第一个位置p，同时保持排序顺序。如果x在值域内，这就是x的位置。如果p是超过末端的位置，x就找不到。否则，我们可以测试x是否在那里，看看是否找到了x。

from bisect import bisect_left

def binary_search(a, x, lo=0, hi=None):
    if hi is None: hi = len(a)
    pos = bisect_left(a, x, lo, hi)                  # find insertion position
    return pos if pos != hi and a[pos] == x else -1  # don't walk off the end

值得一提的是，bisect文档现在提供了搜索示例: http://docs.python.org/library/bisect.html#searching-sorted-lists

(引发ValueError而不是返回-1或None更加python化——例如，list.index()会这样做。当然，你也可以根据自己的需要调整这些例子。)

这段代码以递归的方式处理整数列表。寻找最简单的情况，即:列表长度小于2。这意味着答案已经存在，并执行测试以检查正确答案。 如果不正确，则设置中间值并测试其是否正确，如果不正确，则再次调用该函数，但将中间值设置为上限或下限，将其向左或向右移动

def binary_search(intList, intValue, lowValue, highValue):
    if(highValue - lowValue) < 2:
        return intList[lowValue] == intValue or intList[highValue] == intValue
    middleValue = lowValue + ((highValue - lowValue)/2)
    if intList[middleValue] == intValue:
        return True
    if intList[middleValue] > intValue:
        return binary_search(intList, intValue, lowValue, middleValue - 1)
   return binary_search(intList, intValue, middleValue + 1, highValue)

'''
Only used if set your position as global
'''
position #set global 

def bst(array,taget): # just pass the array and target
        global position
        low = 0
        high = len(array)
    while low <= high:
        mid = (lo+hi)//2
        if a[mid] == target:
            position = mid
            return -1
        elif a[mid] < target: 
            high = mid+1
        else:
            low = mid-1
    return -1

我想这样更好更有效。请纠正我:)。谢谢你！

在维基百科http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_search_algorithm上查看例子

def binary_search(a, key, imin=0, imax=None):
    if imax is None:
        # if max amount not set, get the total
        imax = len(a) - 1

    while imin <= imax:
        # calculate the midpoint
        mid = (imin + imax)//2
        midval = a[mid]

        # determine which subarray to search
        if midval < key:
            # change min index to search upper subarray
            imin = mid + 1
        elif midval > key:
            # change max index to search lower subarray
            imax = mid - 1
        else:
            # return index number 
            return mid
    raise ValueError

戴夫·亚伯拉罕斯的解决方案很好。虽然我会把它做得极简:

def binary_search(L, x):
    i = bisect.bisect_left(L, x)
    if i == len(L) or L[i] != x:
        return -1
    return i

我同意@DaveAbrahams使用等分模块的答案是正确的方法。他在回答中没有提到一个重要的细节。

从文档中平分。Bisect_left (a, x, lo=0, hi=len(a))

平分模块不需要预先计算搜索数组。你可以把端点表示为等分线。Bisect_left，而不是使用默认值0和len(a)。

对我的使用更重要的是，寻找一个值X，使给定函数的误差最小化。要做到这一点，我需要一种方法让bisect_left的算法调用我的计算。这真的很简单。

只需要提供一个对象，将__getitem__定义为

例如，我们可以使用平分算法以任意精度找到一个平方根!

import bisect

class sqrt_array(object):
    def __init__(self, digits):
        self.precision = float(10**(digits))
    def __getitem__(self, key):
        return (key/self.precision)**2.0

sa = sqrt_array(4)

# "search" in the range of 0 to 10 with a "precision" of 0.0001
index = bisect.bisect_left(sa, 7, 0, 10*10**4)
print 7**0.5
print index/(10**4.0)

虽然Python中没有显式的二进制搜索算法，但有一个模块- bisect -用于使用二进制搜索在排序列表中找到元素的插入点。这可以被“欺骗”为执行二分搜索。它最大的优势和大多数库代码一样——它是高性能的，经过良好测试的，并且可以正常工作(特别是二进制搜索很难成功实现——特别是在没有仔细考虑边缘情况的情况下)。

基本类型

对于基本类型，如string或int，这是非常简单的-你只需要bisect模块和一个排序列表:

>>> import bisect
>>> names = ['bender', 'fry', 'leela', 'nibbler', 'zoidberg']
>>> bisect.bisect_left(names, 'fry')
1
>>> keyword = 'fry'
>>> x = bisect.bisect_left(names, keyword)
>>> names[x] == keyword
True
>>> keyword = 'arnie'
>>> x = bisect.bisect_left(names, keyword)
>>> names[x] == keyword
False

你也可以用它来查找副本:

...
>>> names = ['bender', 'fry', 'fry', 'fry', 'leela', 'nibbler', 'zoidberg']
>>> keyword = 'fry'
>>> leftIndex = bisect.bisect_left(names, keyword)
>>> rightIndex = bisect.bisect_right(names, keyword)
>>> names[leftIndex:rightIndex]
['fry', 'fry', 'fry']

显然，如果需要，您可以只返回索引，而不是该索引处的值。

对象

对于自定义类型或对象，事情有点棘手:您必须确保实现丰富的比较方法，以便正确地进行比较。

>>> import bisect
>>> class Tag(object):  # a simple wrapper around strings
...     def __init__(self, tag):
...         self.tag = tag
...     def __lt__(self, other):
...         return self.tag < other.tag
...     def __gt__(self, other):
...         return self.tag > other.tag
...
>>> tags = [Tag('bender'), Tag('fry'), Tag('leela'), Tag('nibbler'), Tag('zoidbe
rg')]
>>> key = Tag('fry')
>>> leftIndex = bisect.bisect_left(tags, key)
>>> rightIndex = bisect.bisect_right(tags, key)
>>> print([tag.tag for tag in tags[leftIndex:rightIndex]])
['fry']

这应该至少在Python 2.7 -> 3.3中工作

这是手册上的内容:

http://docs.python.org/2/library/bisect.html

8.5.1. 搜索排序列表

上面的bisect()函数在查找插入点时很有用，但在执行普通搜索任务时可能会有些棘手或尴尬。下面5个函数展示了如何将它们转换为排序列表的标准查找:

def index(a, x):
    'Locate the leftmost value exactly equal to x'
    i = bisect_left(a, x)
    if i != len(a) and a[i] == x:
        return i
    raise ValueError

因此，稍微修改一下你的代码应该是:

def index(a, x):
    'Locate the leftmost value exactly equal to x'
    i = bisect_left(a, x)
    if i != len(a) and a[i] == x:
        return i
    return -1

S是一个列表。 Binary (s, 0, len(s) - 1, find)是初始调用。 函数返回查询项的索引。如果没有这样的项，则返回-1。 def二进制(s, p, q,找到): 如果发现= = s ((p + q) / 2): 返回(p + q) / 2 Elif p==q-1或p==q: 如果发现= = s[问]: 回来问 其他: 返回1 find < s[(p+q)/2]: 返回二进制(s p (p + q) / 2,找到) Elif find > s[(p+q)/2]: 返回二进制(s (p + q) / 2 + 1, q,找到)

这是基于一个数学断言，即(low + high)/2的下限总是小于high，其中low是下限，high是上限。

def binsearch(t, key, low = 0, high = len(t) - 1):
    # bisecting the range
    while low < high:
        mid = (low + high)//2
        if t[mid] < key:
            low = mid + 1
        else:
            high = mid
    # at this point 'low' should point at the place
    # where the value of 'key' is possibly stored.
    return low if t[low] == key else -1

我需要二进制搜索python和通用的Django模型。在Django模型中，一个模型可以有外键到另一个模型，我想在检索到的模型对象上执行一些搜索。我写了下面的函数，你可以用这个。

def binary_search(values, key, lo=0, hi=None, length=None, cmp=None):
    """
    This is a binary search function which search for given key in values.
    This is very generic since values and key can be of different type.
    If they are of different type then caller must specify `cmp` function to
    perform a comparison between key and values' item.
    :param values:  List of items in which key has to be search
    :param key: search key
    :param lo: start index to begin search
    :param hi: end index where search will be performed
    :param length: length of values
    :param cmp: a comparator function which can be used to compare key and values
    :return: -1 if key is not found else index
    """
    assert type(values[0]) == type(key) or cmp, "can't be compared"
    assert not (hi and length), "`hi`, `length` both can't be specified at the same time"

    lo = lo
    if not lo:
        lo = 0
    if hi:
        hi = hi
    elif length:
        hi = length - 1
    else:
        hi = len(values) - 1

    while lo <= hi:
        mid = lo + (hi - lo) // 2
        if not cmp:
            if values[mid] == key:
                return mid
            if values[mid] < key:
                lo = mid + 1
            else:
                hi = mid - 1
        else:
            val = cmp(values[mid], key)
            # 0 -> a == b
            # > 0 -> a > b
            # < 0 -> a < b
            if val == 0:
                return mid
            if val < 0:
                lo = mid + 1
            else:
                hi = mid - 1
    return -1

def binary_search_length_of_a_list(single_method_list):
    index = 0
    first = 0
    last = 1

    while True:
        mid = ((first + last) // 2)
        if not single_method_list.get(index):
            break
        index = mid + 1
        first = index
        last = index + 1
    return mid

二分查找:

// List - values inside list
// searchItem - Item to search
// size - Size of list
// upperBound - higher index of list
// lowerBound - lower index of list
def binarySearch(list, searchItem, size, upperBound, lowerBound):
        print(list)
        print(upperBound)
        print(lowerBound)
        mid = ((upperBound + lowerBound)) // 2
        print(mid)
        if int(list[int(mid)]) == value:
               return "value exist"
        elif int(list[int(mid)]) < value:
             return searchItem(list, value, size, upperBound, mid + 1)
        elif int(list[int(mid)]) > value:
               return searchItem(list, value, size, mid - 1, lowerBound)

//调用上述函数使用:

list = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
searchItem = 1        
print(searchItem(list[0], item, len(list[0]) -1, len(list[0]) - 1, 0))

上面有很多好的解决方案，但我还没有看到一个简单的(KISS保持简单(因为我是)愚蠢的使用Python内置/通用平分函数来做二进制搜索。使用bisect函数的一些代码，我想下面有一个示例，其中我测试了一个小字符串数组的所有情况。上面的一些解决方案提到了这一点，但希望下面的简单代码能帮助像我一样困惑的人。

Python bisect is used to indicate where to insert an a new value/search item into a sorted list. The below code which uses bisect_left which will return the index of the hit if the search item in the list/array is found (Note bisect and bisect_right will return the index of the element after the hit or match as the insertion point) If not found, bisect_left will return an index to the next item in the sorted list which will not == the search value. The only other case is where the search item would go at the end of the list where the index returned would be beyond the end of the list/array, and which in the code below the early exit by Python with "and" logic handles. (first condition False Python does not check subsequent conditions)

#Code
from bisect import bisect_left
names=["Adam","Donny","Jalan","Zach","Zayed"]
search=""
lenNames = len(names)
while search !="none":
    search =input("Enter name to search for or 'none' to terminate program:")
    if search == "none":
        break
    i = bisect_left(names,search)
    print(i) # show index returned by Python bisect_left
    if i < (lenNames) and names[i] == search:
        print(names[i],"found") #return True - if function
    else:
        print(search,"not found") #return False – if function
##Exhaustive test cases:
##Enter name to search for or 'none' to terminate program:Zayed
##4
##Zayed found
##Enter name to search for or 'none' to terminate program:Zach
##3
##Zach found
##Enter name to search for or 'none' to terminate program:Jalan
##2
##Jalan found
##Enter name to search for or 'none' to terminate program:Donny
##1
##Donny found
##Enter name to search for or 'none' to terminate program:Adam
##0
##Adam found
##Enter name to search for or 'none' to terminate program:Abie
##0
##Abie not found
##Enter name to search for or 'none' to terminate program:Carla
##1
##Carla not found
##Enter name to search for or 'none' to terminate program:Ed
##2
##Ed not found
##Enter name to search for or 'none' to terminate program:Roger
##3
##Roger not found
##Enter name to search for or 'none' to terminate program:Zap
##4
##Zap not found
##Enter name to search for or 'none' to terminate program:Zyss
##5
##Zyss not found

你好，这是我的python实现没有平分。如果可以改进，请告诉我。

def bisectLeft(a, t):
    lo = 0
    hi = len(a) - 1
    ans = None
    # print("------lower------")
    # print(a, t)
    while lo <= hi:
        mid = (lo + hi) // 2
        # print(a[lo:mid], [a[mid]], a[mid:hi])
        if a[mid] < t:
            lo = mid + 1
        elif a[mid] > t:
            hi = mid - 1
        elif a[mid] == t:
            if mid == 0: return 0
            if a[mid-1] != t: return mid
            hi = mid - 1
            
    return ans

def bisectRight(a, t):
    lo = 0
    hi = len(a) - 1
    ans = None
    # print("------upper------")
    # print(a, t)
    while lo <= hi:
        mid = (lo + hi) // 2
        # print(a[lo:mid], [a[mid]], a[mid:hi])
        if a[mid] == t:
            ans = mid
        if a[mid] <= t:
            lo = mid + 1
        else:
            hi = mid - 1
    return ans

我想使用bisect_left，然后检查是否在那项 position等于我要搜索的内容，但这看起来很麻烦 (我还需要做边界检查，如果数字可以更大 而不是我列表中最大的数字)。如果有更好的方法，我会 我想了解一下。

避免边界检查或相等性检查的一种方法是同时运行bisect_left()和bisect_right():

def find(data, target):
    start = bisect_left(data, target)
    end = bisect_right(data, target)
    return -1 if start == end else start