[LeetCode]#1313. Decompress Run-Length Encoded List

Environment: Python 3.7

Key technique: extend function

We are given a list nums of integers representing a list compressed with run-length encoding.

Consider each adjacent pair of elements [freq, val] = [nums[2*i], nums[2*i+1]] (with i >= 0). For each such pair, there are freq elements with value val concatenated in a sublist. Concatenate all the sublists from left to right to generate the decompressed list.

Return the decompressed list.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [1,2,3,4]
Output: [2,4,4,4]
Explanation: The first pair [1,2] means we have freq = 1 and val = 2 so we generate the array [2].
The second pair [3,4] means we have freq = 3 and val = 4 so we generate [4,4,4].
At the end the concatenation [2] + [4,4,4] is [2,4,4,4].

Example 2:

Input: nums = [1,1,2,3]
Output: [1,3,3]

Constraints:

• 2 <= nums.length <= 100
• nums.length % 2 == 0
• 1 <= nums[i] <= 100

Analysis:

The odd means frequent and even means number. Use extend function to solve it as below.

Solution:

class Solution:
    def decompressRLElist(self, nums):
        ans=[]
        l=len(nums)
        for i in range(0,l,2):
            ans.extend(nums[i]*[nums[i+1]])
        return ans

Submitted result:

Reference:

https://blog.csdn.net/CSerwangjun/article/details/104071615