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Breadth-First Search Implementation
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Breadth-First Search Implementation

EasyPython

Problem

Unity tooling can model scene, prefab, and asset dependencies as a directed graph. Given an adjacency-list representation and a starting asset, return the nodes visited by a breadth-first search, preserving the neighbor order provided in the input.

Formal Specification

Implement bfs_graph(graph, start).

  • graph is a dictionary where each key is a node identifier and its value is a list of directly reachable node identifiers.
  • start is a node identifier. It may be omitted from graph, in which case it has no outgoing edges.
  • Return a list containing every node reachable from start, in BFS order.
  • Each node must appear at most once, even when the graph contains cycles or multiple paths to the same node.

Constraints

  • 1 <= number of graph nodes <= 10^5
  • 0 <= number of edges <= 2 * 10^5
  • Node identifiers are hashable and usable as dictionary keys
  • The graph may contain cycles and duplicate edges
  • The start node may not appear as a key in graph

Function Signature

def bfs_graph(graph, start):
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