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LC-0073 Medium LeetCode

73. Set Matrix Zeroes

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Difficulty: medium Acceptance: 60% Topics: Array, Hash Table, Matrix
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Reference solution (spoiler · python)
from functools import reduce
# Time:  O(m * n)
# Space: O(1)

class Solution(object):
    # @param matrix, a list of lists of integers
    # RETURN NOTHING, MODIFY matrix IN PLACE.
    def setZeroes(self, matrix):
        first_col = reduce(lambda acc, i: acc or matrix[i][0] == 0, xrange(len(matrix)), False)
        first_row = reduce(lambda acc, j: acc or matrix[0][j] == 0, xrange(len(matrix[0])), False)

        for i in xrange(1, len(matrix)):
            for j in xrange(1, len(matrix[0])):
                if matrix[i][j] == 0:
                    matrix[i][0], matrix[0][j] = 0, 0

        for i in xrange(1, len(matrix)):
            for j in xrange(1, len(matrix[0])):
                if matrix[i][0] == 0 or matrix[0][j] == 0:
                    matrix[i][j] = 0

        if first_col:
            for i in xrange(len(matrix)):
                matrix[i][0] = 0

        if first_row:
            for j in xrange(len(matrix[0])):
                matrix[0][j] = 0

Solution from kamyu104/LeetCode-Solutions · MIT