The following should be linear time (in the number of the elements in the T
s).
from collections import defaultdict
S = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9]
T_1 = [1, 4]
T_2 = [2, 3]
T_3 = [1, 3, 4]
Ts = [S, T_1, T_2, T_3]
parents = defaultdict(int)
for i, T in enumerate(Ts):
for elem in T:
parents[elem] += 2 ** i
children = defaultdict(list)
for elem, p in parents.items():
children[p].append(elem)
print(list(children.values()))
Result:
[[5, 6, 8, 9], [1, 4], [2], [3]]