Given two words word1 and word2, find the minimum number of steps required to convert word1 to word2. (each operation is counted as 1 step.)
You have the following 3 operations permitted on a word:
a) Insert a character
b) Delete a character
c) Replace a character
class Solution(object):
def minDistance(self, word1, word2):
"""
:type word1: str
:type word2: str
:rtype: int
"""
l1, l2 = len(word1)+1, len(word2)+1
dp = [[0 for _ in xrange(l2)] for _ in xrange(l1)]
for i in xrange(l1):
dp[i][0] = i
for j in xrange(l2):
dp[0][j] = j
for i in xrange(1, l1):
for j in xrange(1, l2):
dp[i][j] = min(dp[i-1][j]+1, dp[i][j-1]+1, dp[i-1][j-1]+(word1[i-1]!=word2[j-1]))
return dp[-1][-1]