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Implement a Basic Hash Table
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Implement a Basic Hash Table

EasyPython

Problem

TfL arrival-processing code needs a small in-memory lookup structure for mapping integer stop IDs to the latest value received from TfL Countdown. Implement a basic hash table without using the built-in dict or set for storage.

Use separate chaining: the table must contain a fixed number of buckets, and each bucket stores a list of key-value pairs. The function receives operations and returns the results of all get and delete operations in their original order.

Formal Specification

Implement hash_table(operations, bucket_count), where operations is a list containing:

  1. ['put', key, value], which inserts or replaces a key-value pair.
  2. ['get', key], which returns the value for key, or None if absent.
  3. ['delete', key], which removes key if present and returns True, otherwise returns False.

key is an integer and value is an integer. Return a list containing only results from get and delete operations.

Constraints

  • 1 <= len(operations) <= 10^4
  • 1 <= bucket_count <= 10^3
  • -10^9 <= key <= 10^9
  • value is an integer
  • The table must support collisions, updates, lookups, and deletion
  • Do not use dict or set to store table entries

Function Signature

def hash_table(operations, bucket_count):
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