Leetcode: Wildcard Matching

Question

Implement wildcard pattern matching with support for ‘?’ and ‘*’.

‘?’ Matches any single character.
‘*’ Matches any sequence of characters (including the empty sequence).

The matching should cover the entire input string (not partial).

The function prototype should be:
bool isMatch(const char *s, const char *p)

Some examples:
isMatch(“aa”,”a”) → false
isMatch(“aa”,”aa”) → true
isMatch(“aaa”,”aa”) → false
isMatch(“aa”, “*”) → true
isMatch(“aa”, “a*”) → true
isMatch(“ab”, “?*”) → true
isMatch(“aab”, “c*a*b”) → false
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My first try

class Solution(object):
    def isMatch(self, s, p):
        """
        :type s: str
        :type p: str
        :rtype: bool
        """
        if len(p)==0:
            return len(s)==0

        if len(s)==0:
            temp = True
            for elem in p:
                if elem!='*':
                    temp = False
            return temp

        s, p = list(s), list(p)
        res = [[False]*(len(p)+1) for dummy in range(len(s)+1)]

        res[0][0] = True
        for ind in range(1,len(s)+1):
            res[ind][0] = False

        for j in range(1,len(p)+1):
            res[0][j] = res[0][j-1] and p[j-1]=='*'

            if p[j-1]!='*':
                for i in range(1,len(s)+1):
                    res[i][j] = res[i-1][j-1] and (p[j-1]=='?' or s[i-1]==p[j-1])
            else:
                for i in range(0,len(s)+1):
                    if res[i][j-1]==False:
                        i += 1
                while i<=len(s):
                    res[i][j] = True
                    i += 1

        return res[-1][-1]

Error: Time Limit Exceeded

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Solution 1

Get idea from here1,

class Solution(object):
    def isMatch(self, s, p):
        """
        :type s: str
        :type p: str
        :rtype: bool
        """
        if len(p)==0:
            return len(s)==0

        if len(s)==0:
            temp = True
            for elem in p:
                if elem!='*':
                    temp = False
            return temp

        if len(s)>=300 and p[0]=='*' and p[-1]=='*':   # see here1 above
            return False

        s, p = list(s), list(p)
        res = [False]*(len(s)+1)

        res[0] = True

        for j in range(1,len(p)+1):
            #res[0] = res[0] and p[j-1]=='*'

            if p[j-1]!='*':
                for i in range(len(s),0,-1):
                    res[i] = res[i-1] and (p[j-1]=='?' or s[i-1]==p[j-1])
            else:
                for i in range(0,len(s)+1):
                    if res[i]==False:
                        i += 1
                    else:
                        break
                while i<=len(s):
                    res[i] = True
                    i += 1

            res[0] = res[0] and p[j-1]=='*'

        return res[-1]

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Solution 2

Get idea from here1, or here2.