Leetcode: Read N Characters Given Read4

Question

The API: int read4(char *buf) reads 4 characters at a time from a file.

The return value is the actual number of characters read. For example, it returns 3 if there is only 3 characters left in the file.

By using the read4 API, implement the function int read(char *buf, int n) that reads n characters from the file.

Note:
The read function will only be called once for each test case.

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Solution

# The read4 API is already defined for you.
# @param buf, a list of characters
# @return an integer
# def read4(buf):

class Solution(object):
    def read(self, buf, n):
        """
        :type buf: Destination buffer (List[str])
        :type n: Maximum number of characters to read (int)
        :rtype: The number of characters read (int)
        """

        Readbyte = 0
        bufread4 = ['']*4

        while Readbyte<n:
            size = read4(bufread4)   # size maybe 4 since there is no char in file
            copybyte = min(size, n-Readbyte)
            for ind in range(copybyte):
                buf[Readbyte+ind] = bufread4[ind]

            Readbyte += copybyte

            if size<4:
                break

        return Readbyte写