LintCode 74. First Bad Version

题目

The code base version is an integer start from 1 to n. One day, someone committed a bad version in the code case, so it caused this version and the following versions are all failed in the unit tests. Find the first bad version.
You can call isBadVersion to help you determine which version is the first bad one. The details interface can be found in the code’s annotation part.
Notice
Please read the annotation in code area to get the correct way to call isBadVersion in different language. For example, Java is SVNRepo.isBadVersion(v)
Have you met this question in a real interview?
Yes
Example
Given n = 5:
isBadVersion(3) -> false
isBadVersion(5) -> true
isBadVersion(4) -> true
Here we are 100% sure that the 4th version is the first bad version.
Challenge
You should call isBadVersion as few as possible.
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思路

二分，记录最早出现的index即可。

代码

"""
class SVNRepo:
    @classmethod
    def isBadVersion(cls, id)
        # Run unit tests to check whether verison `id` is a bad version
        # return true if unit tests passed else false.
You can use SVNRepo.isBadVersion(10) to check whether version 10 is a 
bad version.
"""


class Solution:
    """
    @param: n: An integer
    @return: An integer which is the first bad version.
    """
    def findFirstBadVersion(self, n):
        # write your code here
        start = 1; end = n;
        res = 1;
        while start <= end:
            mid = start + (end - start) // 2
            if SVNRepo.isBadVersion(mid):
                end = mid - 1
                res = mid
            else:
                start = mid + 1
        return res