Speed up

Here is a collection of tricks which can be useful to make your code faster.

Fast input and output

If you have big inputs or/and outputs in python in can be crucial to use the fastest way possible. Here are several ways from slower to faster.

To read tuple use the following code:

a, b = map(int, input().split())

Way 1

import sys
input = sys.stdin.readline

Way 2

import io, os, sys
input = io.BytesIO(os.read(0,os.fstat(0).st_size)).readline

sys.stdout.write(" ".join(map(str,list)) + "\n")

Way 3

import os
import sys
from io import BytesIO, IOBase

_str = str
str = lambda x=b"": x if type(x) is bytes else _str(x).encode()

BUFSIZE = 8192

class FastIO(IOBase):
    newlines = 0

    def __init__(self, file):
        self._fd = file.fileno()
        self.buffer = BytesIO()
        self.writable = "x" in file.mode or "r" not in file.mode
        self.write = self.buffer.write if self.writable else None

    def read(self):
        while True:
            b = os.read(self._fd, max(os.fstat(self._fd).st_size, BUFSIZE))
            if not b:
                break
            ptr = self.buffer.tell()
            self.buffer.seek(0, 2), self.buffer.write(b), self.buffer.seek(ptr)
        self.newlines = 0
        return self.buffer.read()

    def readline(self):
        while self.newlines == 0:
            b = os.read(self._fd, max(os.fstat(self._fd).st_size, BUFSIZE))
            self.newlines = b.count(b"\n") + (not b)
            ptr = self.buffer.tell()
            self.buffer.seek(0, 2), self.buffer.write(b), self.buffer.seek(ptr)
        self.newlines -= 1
        return self.buffer.readline()

    def flush(self):
        if self.writable:
            os.write(self._fd, self.buffer.getvalue())
            self.buffer.truncate(0), self.buffer.seek(0)


class IOWrapper(IOBase):
    def __init__(self, file):
        self.buffer = FastIO(file)
        self.flush = self.buffer.flush
        self.writable = self.buffer.writable
        self.write = lambda s: self.buffer.write(s.encode("ascii"))
        self.read = lambda: self.buffer.read().decode("ascii")
        self.readline = lambda: self.buffer.readline().decode("ascii")


sys.stdin, sys.stdout = IOWrapper(sys.stdin), IOWrapper(sys.stdout)
input = lambda: sys.stdin.readline().rstrip("\r\n")
output = lambda x: sys.stdout.write(x)

bootstrap for recursion

It is used in cases when we have recursion like dfs, which is not fast enough, this will make it almost iterative. To use it use @bootstrap word before function. Also, instead of return in function use yield.

from types import GeneratorType
def bootstrap(f, stack=[]):
    def wrappedfunc(*args, **kwargs):
        if stack:
            return f(*args, **kwargs)
        else:
            to = f(*args, **kwargs)
            while True:
                if type(to) is GeneratorType:
                    stack.append(to)
                    to = next(to)
                else:
                    stack.pop()
                    if not stack:
                        break
                    to = stack[-1].send(to)
            return to

    return wrappedfunc