Leetcode 刷题 - 157 - Read N Characters Given Read4

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.

看了题目以为只要返回读取了多少个characters就可以，最后返回个int值。结果test case判断的时候是要看读取的string。

直接

# 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)
        """
        index = 0
        while True:
            buf4 = [""]*4
            current = min(read4(buf4), index) # 用read4方法，把读取的存在buf4中
            for i in xrange(current):
                buf[index] = buf4[i] # 赋值给buf， test case会需要判断看是否buf读取了需要的characters
                index += 1
            if current!=4:
                return index # 1.可能是读完了最后的read4返回小于4  2. 可能是文件够长，但是读够了已经需要的n