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* [Bfs](https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Python/blob/master/graphs/bfs.py)
* [Bfs Shortest Path](https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Python/blob/master/graphs/bfs_shortest_path.py)
* [Breadth First Search](https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Python/blob/master/graphs/breadth_first_search.py)
* [Breadth First Search Shortest Path](https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Python/blob/master/graphs/breadth_first_search_shortest_path.py)
* [Check Bipartite Graph Bfs](https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Python/blob/master/graphs/check_bipartite_graph_bfs.py)
* [Check Bipartite Graph Dfs](https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Python/blob/master/graphs/check_bipartite_graph_dfs.py)
* [Depth First Search](https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Python/blob/master/graphs/depth_first_search.py)
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"""Breath First Search (BFS) can be used when finding the shortest path
from a given source node to a target node in an unweighted graph.
"""
graph = {
"A": ["B", "C", "E"],
"B": ["A", "D", "E"],
"C": ["A", "F", "G"],
"D": ["B"],
"E": ["A", "B", "D"],
"F": ["C"],
"G": ["C"],
}

from typing import Dict


class Graph:
def __init__(self, graph: Dict[str, str], source_vertex: str) -> None:
"""Graph is implemented as dictionary of adjancency lists. Also,
Source vertex have to be defined upon initialization.
"""
self.graph = graph
# mapping node to its parent in resulting breadth first tree
self.parent = {}
self.source_vertex = source_vertex

def breath_first_search(self) -> None:
"""This function is a helper for running breath first search on this graph.
>>> g = Graph(graph, "G")
>>> g.breath_first_search()
>>> g.parent
{'G': None, 'C': 'G', 'A': 'C', 'F': 'C', 'B': 'A', 'E': 'A', 'D': 'B'}
"""
visited = {self.source_vertex}
self.parent[self.source_vertex] = None
queue = [self.source_vertex] # first in first out queue

while queue:
vertex = queue.pop(0)
for adjancent_vertex in self.graph[vertex]:
if adjancent_vertex not in visited:
visited.add(adjancent_vertex)
self.parent[adjancent_vertex] = vertex
queue.append(adjancent_vertex)

def shortest_path(self, target_vertex: str) -> str:
"""This shortest path function returns a string, describing the result:
1.) No path is found. The string is a human readable message to indicate this.
2.) The shortest path is found. The string is in the form `v1(->v2->v3->...->vn)`,
where v1 is the source vertex and vn is the target vertex, if it exists separately.

>>> g = Graph(graph, "G")
>>> g.breath_first_search()

Case 1 - No path is found.
>>> g.shortest_path("Foo")
'No path from vertex:G to vertex:Foo'

Case 2 - The path is found.
>>> g.shortest_path("D")
'G->C->A->B->D'
>>> g.shortest_path("G")
'G'
"""
if target_vertex == self.source_vertex:
return f"{self.source_vertex}"
elif not self.parent.get(target_vertex):
return f"No path from vertex:{self.source_vertex} to vertex:{target_vertex}"
else:
return self.shortest_path(self.parent[target_vertex]) + f"->{target_vertex}"


if __name__ == "__main__":
import doctest

doctest.testmod()
g = Graph(graph, "G")
g.breath_first_search()
print(g.shortest_path("D"))
print(g.shortest_path("G"))
print(g.shortest_path("Foo"))