题目:
给定两个单词(beginWord 和 endWord)和一个字典,找到从 beginWord 到 endWord 的最短转换序列的长度。转换需遵循如下规则:
- 每次转换只能改变一个字母。
- 转换过程中的中间单词必须是字典中的单词。
说明:
- 如果不存在这样的转换序列,返回 0。
- 所有单词具有相同的长度。
- 所有单词只由小写字母组成。
- 字典中不存在重复的单词。
- 你可以假设 beginWord 和 endWord 是非空的,且二者不相同。
示例 1:
输入:
beginWord = "hit",
endWord = "cog",
wordList = ["hot","dot","dog","lot","log","cog"]
输出: 5
解释: 一个最短转换序列是 "hit" -> "hot" -> "dot" -> "dog" -> "cog",
返回它的长度 5。
示例 2:
输入:
beginWord = "hit"
endWord = "cog"
wordList = ["hot","dot","dog","lot","log"]
输出: 0
解释: endWord "cog" 不在字典中,所以无法进行转换。
代码1:
class Solution:
def ladderLength(self, beginWord, endWord, wordList):
if beginWord in wordList:
wordList.remove(beginWord)
if endWord not in wordList:
return 0
min_path = 1
middle_link_list = [endWord]
while len(middle_link_list) > 0:
middle_link_list_tmp = []
for j in middle_link_list:
wordList.remove(j)
for middle_link_word in middle_link_list:
difference_num = 0
for k in range(len(middle_link_word)):
if beginWord[k] != middle_link_word[k]:
difference_num += 1
if difference_num == 1:
min_path += 1
return min_path
else:
for i in self.findSimilarWord(middle_link_word, wordList):
if i not in middle_link_list_tmp:
middle_link_list_tmp.append(i)
if len(middle_link_list_tmp) == 0:
return 0
else:
middle_link_list = middle_link_list_tmp
min_path += 1
def findSimilarWord(self, word, wordlist):
middle_wordList = []
for each_word in wordlist:
difference_num = 0
for i in range(len(each_word)):
if word[i] != each_word[i]:
difference_num += 1
if difference_num == 1:
middle_wordList.append(each_word)
return middle_wordList
结果1:
代码2: