Array-Based Stack with Maximum Capacity

Modify the ArrayStack implementation included in the Public Files section of the statement so that the stack’s capacity is limited to maxlen elements, where maxlen is an optional parameter to the constructor (that defaults to 0). If push is called when the stack is at full capacity, throw a Full exception (defined similarly to Empty). In order to avoid amortization $^1$ , the new implementation of ArrayStack should initialize the underlying list to a list with length equal to the stack’s maximum capacity specified in the call to the constructor.

1. See section 5.3 Dynamic Arrays and Amortization of the book:
M.T. Goodrich, R. Tamassia, and M.H. Goldwasser. Data Structures and Algorithms in Python. Wiley, 2013.

Observation It may be useful to run the program given in the Public Files on the public example (sample-1.inp) without modifying the class ArrayStack, and compare the result with the output the solution to this problem should generate for the same example (i.e. sample-1-cor).

In your implementation of push and pop, make sure the first line is

previous = sys.getsizeof(self._data)

and the last two lines (before return, if the function returns a value) are

    current = sys.getsizeof(self._data)
    ArrayStack._resize_check(previous, current)

You can use the following templates:

  def push(self, e):
    """Add element e to the top of the stack."""
    previous = sys.getsizeof(self._data)
    # INSERT YOUR CODE HERE
    current = sys.getsizeof(self._data)
    ArrayStack._resize_check(previous, current)

  def pop(self):
    """Remove and return the element from the top of the stack (i.e., LIFO).
    Raise Empty exception if the stack is empty.
    """
    if self.is_empty():
      raise Empty('Stack is empty')
    else:
      previous = sys.getsizeof(self._data)
      # INSERT YOUR CODE HERE
      current = sys.getsizeof(self._data)
      ArrayStack._resize_check(previous, current)
      return val

Problem information

Author: Josefina Sierra Santibáñez

Generation: 2026-01-25T13:34:37.322Z