[LeetCode链表] 21.合并两个有序链表（easy）

先来感受一下递归的优美：

# Definition for singly-linked list.
# class ListNode:
#     def __init__(self, val=0, next=None):
#         self.val = val
#         self.next = next
class Solution:
    def mergeTwoLists(self, l1: ListNode, l2: ListNode) -> ListNode:
        if l1 is None:
            return l2
        if l2 is None:
            return l1
        if l1.val < l2.val:
            l1.next = self.mergeTwoLists(l1.next, l2)
            return l1
        else:
            l2.next = self.mergeTwoLists(l1, l2.next)
            return l2

再看一下普通解法：

class Solution:
    def mergeTwoLists(self, l1, l2):
        prehead = ListNode(-1)

        prev = prehead
        while l1 and l2:
            if l1.val <= l2.val:
                prev.next = l1
                l1 = l1.next
            else:
                prev.next = l2
                l2 = l2.next            
            prev = prev.next

        # 合并后 l1 和 l2 最多只有一个还未被合并完，我们直接将链表末尾指向未合并完的链表即可
        prev.next = l1 if l1 is not None else l2

        return prehead.next

C++是这样写的：

class Solution {
public:
    ListNode* mergeTwoLists(ListNode* l1, ListNode* l2) {
        ListNode* preHead = new ListNode(-1);

        ListNode* prev = preHead;
        while (l1 != nullptr && l2 != nullptr) {
            if (l1->val < l2->val) {
                prev->next = l1;
                l1 = l1->next;
            } else {
                prev->next = l2;
                l2 = l2->next;
            }
            prev = prev->next;
        }

        // 合并后 l1 和 l2 最多只有一个还未被合并完，我们直接将链表末尾指向未合并完的链表即可
        prev->next = l1 == nullptr ? l2 : l1;

        return preHead->next;
    }
};