[leetcode]Trapping Rain Water @ Python

原题地址：https://oj.leetcode.com/problems/trapping-rain-water/

题意：

Given n non-negative integers representing an elevation map where the width of each bar is 1, compute how much water it is able to trap after raining.

For example, 
Given [0,1,0,2,1,0,1,3,2,1,2,1], return 6.

The above elevation map is represented by array [0,1,0,2,1,0,1,3,2,1,2,1]. In this case, 6 units of rain water (blue section) are being trapped. Thanks Marcos for contributing this image!

解题思路：模拟法。开辟一个数组leftmosthigh，leftmosthigh[i]为A[i]之前的最高的bar值，然后从后面开始遍历，用rightmax来记录从后向前遍历遇到的最大bar值，那么min(leftmosthigh[i], rightmax)-A[i]就是在第i个bar可以储存的水量。例如当i=9时，此时leftmosthigh[9]=3,而rightmax=2，则储水量为2-1=1，依次类推即可。这种方法还是很巧妙的。时间复杂度为O(N)。

代码：

class Solution:

    # @param A, a list of integers

    # @return an integer

    def trap(self, A):

        leftmosthigh = [0 for i in range(len(A))]

        leftmax = 0

        for i in range(len(A)):

            if A[i] > leftmax: leftmax = A[i]

            leftmosthigh[i] = leftmax

        sum = 0

        rightmax = 0

        for i in reversed(range(len(A))):

            if A[i] > rightmax: rightmax = A[i]

            if min(rightmax, leftmosthigh[i]) > A[i]:

                sum += min(rightmax, leftmosthigh[i]) - A[i]

        return sum