143. Reorder List

Medium


You are given the head of a singly linked-list. The list can be represented as:

L0 → L1 → … → Ln - 1 → Ln

Reorder the list to be on the following form:

L0 → Ln → L1 → Ln - 1 → L2 → Ln - 2 → …

You may not modify the values in the list's nodes. Only nodes themselves may be changed.

 

Example 1:

Input: head = [1,2,3,4]
Output: [1,4,2,3]

Example 2:

Input: head = [1,2,3,4,5]
Output: [1,5,2,4,3]

 

Constraints:

  • The number of nodes in the list is in the range [1, 5 * 104].
  • 1 <= Node.val <= 1000




 # Definition for singly-linked list.
# class ListNode:
#     def __init__(self, val=0, next=None):
#         self.val = val
#         self.next = next
class Solution:
    def rotate_last(self, head):
        node = head
        prev = None
        while node:
            temp = node.next 
            node.next = prev
            prev = node
            node = temp

        #self.show(prev)
        return prev

    def reorderList(self, head: Optional[ListNode]) -> None:
        """
        Do not return anything, modify head in-place instead.
        """
        node = head
        slow, fast = node, node

        while fast and fast.next:
            slow = slow.next 
            fast = fast.next.next

        end_head = self.rotate_last(slow.next)
        slow.next = None

        start = head

        while start and end_head:
            start_next = start.next 
            end_next = end_head.next 
            start.next = end_head
            end_head.next = start_next

            start = start_next
            end_head = end_next

        return head

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