Leetcode 75. Sort Colors

Given an array with n objects colored red, white or blue, sort them in-place so that objects of the same color are adjacent, with the colors in the order red, white and blue.

Here, we will use the integers 0, 1, and 2 to represent the color red, white, and blue respectively.

Note: You are not suppose to use the library’s sort function for this problem.

Example:

Input: [2,0,2,1,1,0]
Output: [0,0,1,1,2,2]

Two pointers

left points to the position that 0 ends
right points to the position that 2 begins

class Solution:
    def sortColors(self, nums):
        """
        :type nums: List[int]
        :rtype: void Do not return anything, modify nums in-place instead.
        """
        left=0
        right=len(nums)-1
        index=0
        for i in range(len(nums)):
            if nums[index]==2:
                nums[index],nums[right]=nums[right],nums[index]
                right=right-1
            elif nums[index]==0:
                nums[index],nums[left]=nums[left],nums[index]
                left=left+1
                index=index+1
            else:
                index=index+1