Debugging Heapsort in Python

Question

I know how to program in Java, I am very new to python. I am trying to implement HeapSort in Python but I am unable to get where this code went wrong. Can anyone help ?

This is my implementation:

class HeapSort:

    def sort(self,list):
        self.p = list
        self.N = len(list)
        for k in range(N/2,1,-1):
            sink(k,N)

        while N> 1:
            exch(1,N)
            N -=1
            sink(1,N)

# Helper Functions to restore the heap invariant

    def sink(k,N):
        while 2*k <= N:
            j = 2*k
            if (j<N & (j < j+1)):
                j += 1
            if (j < k):
                break
            exch(k,j)
            k = j

    def exch(i,j):
        p[i],p[j] = p[j],p[i]

# Helper Functions to debug

    def isSorted(list):
        for k in range(1,len(list)):
            return False
        return True


    L = [6, 4, 2, 8, 1, 9, 3, 0, 12, 5]
    print(L)
    h = HeapSort()
    h.sort(L)
    print(L)     

The output I am getting is

[6, 4, 2, 8, 1, 9, 3, 0, 12, 5]
    NameError: "name 'HeapSort' is not defined"

    module body in heapsort.py at line 26
    class HeapSort:
    function HeapSort in heapsort.py at line 64
    h = HeapSort()

Answer 1

IF your indentation is accurate, it is causing you to try to call HeapSort in your definition of HeapSort.

Instead you would want

class HeapSort():
    ...

def main():
    L = [6, 4, 2, 8, 1, 9, 3, 0, 12, 5]
    print(L)
    h = HeapSort()
    h.sort(L)
    print(L)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

This allows you to run the file in which you define your class, and if other files import the class, it will not run the code.

EDIT

The above will fix the error that you are getting, but if you see @Matt's comments, but you are running tests within your heapsort.py file, you should move these to an external heapsort-tests.py file and import your class with

from heapsort import HeapSort

EDIT 2

If you are treating this as a class you want to use and pass around as an instantiated object, then you need to pass self to all of your methods and call them with self.method_name(), i.e. self.sink(x,y). If not, you would sort by calling something like HeapSort.sort(L) instead of creating h.