Palindrome-Partitioning: Added memoization

Palindrome-Partitioning/cs412_palindrome_count_bt.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 """
-    name: Nicholas Tamassia
+name: Nicholas Tamassia
 
-    Honor Code and Acknowledgments:
+Honor Code and Acknowledgments:
 
         This work complies with the JMU Honor Code.
 
@@ -14,20 +14,31 @@ def is_palindrome(s: str) -> bool:
 
 
 def palindrome_partitions(s: str) -> int:
+
+    memo: dict[str, int] = {}
+
+    def recurse(s: str) -> int:
+        nonlocal memo
+
         if len(s) == 0:
             return 1
 
         sum = 0
 
         for i in range(1, len(s) + 1):
-        left = s[:i]
-        right = s[i:]
+            left: str = s[:i]
+            right: str = s[i:]
 
             if is_palindrome(left):
-            sum += palindrome_partitions(right)
+                if right not in memo:
+                    memo[right] = palindrome_partitions(right)
+
+                sum += memo[right]
 
         return sum
 
+    return recurse(s)
+
 
 # All modules for CS 412 must include a main method that allows it
 # to imported and invoked from other python scripts