# Time: O(n + 26) # Space: O(26) # counting sort, greedy class Solution(object): def makeAntiPalindrome(self, s): """ :type s: str :rtype: str """ cnt = [0]*26 for x in s: cnt[ord(x)-ord('a')] += 1 if max(cnt) > len(s)//2: return "-1" result = [i for i, x in enumerate(cnt) for _ in xrange(x)] l = next(l for l in xrange((len(s)//2)//2+1) if result[len(s)//2+l] != result[len(s)//2-1]) if l: for i in xrange(cnt[result[len(s)//2-1]]-l): result[len(s)//2+i], result[len(s)//2+i+l] = result[len(s)//2+i+l], result[len(s)//2+i] return "".join(map(lambda x: chr(ord('a')+x), result)) # Time: O(n + 26) # Space: O(26) # counting sort, greedy, two pointers class Solution2(object): def makeAntiPalindrome(self, s): """ :type s: str :rtype: str """ cnt = [0]*26 for x in s: cnt[ord(x)-ord('a')] += 1 if max(cnt) > len(s)//2: return "-1" result = [i for i, x in enumerate(cnt) for _ in xrange(x)] left = len(s)//2 right = left+1 while right < len(s) and result[right] == result[left]: right += 1 while result[left] == result[len(s)-1-left]: result[left] , result[right] = result[right], result[left] left += 1 right += 1 return "".join(map(lambda x: chr(ord('a')+x), result)) # Time: O(n * 26) # Space: O(26) # freq table, greedy class Solution3(object): def makeAntiPalindrome(self, s): """ :type s: str :rtype: str """ cnt = [0]*26 for x in s: cnt[ord(x)-ord('a')] += 1 if max(cnt) > len(s)//2: return "-1" result = [-1]*len(s) for i in xrange(len(s)//2): j = next(j for j in xrange(len(cnt)) if cnt[j]) cnt[j] -= 1 result[i] = j for i in xrange(len(s)//2, len(s)): j = next(j for j in xrange(len(cnt)) if cnt[j] and result[(len(s)-1)-i] != j) cnt[j] -= 1 result[i] = j return "".join(map(lambda x: chr(ord('a')+x), result))