Three Hundred - Eighteen Commit: Implement lprobe() function

Author: AAdewunmi

Section_11(Hash-Table)/(2)_hash-table-linear-probing.py

@@ -15,5 +15,15 @@ def __init__(self):
  self.hashtable_size = 10
  self.hashtable = [0] * self.hashtable_size
 
+ # Hashing function
  def hashcode(self, key):
  return key % self.hashtable_size
+
+ # Function to compute next index to insert element if index already
+ # has an element stored in the Hash Table
+ def lprobe(self, element):
+ i = self.hashcode(element)
+ j = 0
+ while self.hashtable[(i + j) % self.hashtable_size] != 0:
+ j = j + 1
+ return (i + j) % self.hashtable_size