Given two words word1 and word2 , calculate the minimum number of operands used to convert word1 to word2 .
You can perform the following three operations on a word: 1. Insert a character 2. Delete a character 3. Replace a character
def min_distance(word1,word2):
word1_len, word2_len = len(word1), len(word2)
dp = [[0] * (word2_len + 1) for _ in range(word1_len + 1)]
for i in range(1, word1_len + 1):
dp[i][0] = i
for j in range(1, word2_len + 1):
dp[0][j] = j
for i in range(1, word1_len + 1):
for j in range(1, word2_len + 1):
if word1[i - 1] == word2[j - 1]:
dp[i][j] = dp[i-1][j-1]
else:
dp[i][j] = min(dp[i - 1][j - 1] + 1, dp[i][j - 1] + 1, dp[i - 1][j] + 1)
return dp[-1][-1]
Note: Use the idea of dynamic programming. The state equation is:
f(i,j) represents the minimum steps required to convert word1[:i] to word2[:j]