""" Author : Alexander Pantyukhin Date : October 14, 2022 This is implementation Dynamic Programming up bottom approach to find edit distance. The aim is to demonstate up bottom approach for solving the task. The implementation was tested on the leetcode: https://leetcode.com/problems/edit-distance/ """ """ Levinstein distance Dynamic Programming: up -> down. """ def min_distance_up_bottom(word1: str, word2: str) -> int: """ >>> min_distance_up_bottom("intention", "execution") 5 >>> min_distance_up_bottom("intention", "") 9 >>> min_distance_up_bottom("", "") 0 >>> min_distance_up_bottom("zooicoarchaeologist", "zoologist") 10 """ from functools import lru_cache len_word1 = len(word1) len_word2 = len(word2) @lru_cache(maxsize=None) def min_distance(index1: int, index2: int) -> int: # if first word index is overflow - delete all from the second word if index1 >= len_word1: return len_word2 - index2 # if second word index is overflow - delete all from the first word if index2 >= len_word2: return len_word1 - index1 diff = int(word1[index1] != word2[index2]) # current letters not identical return min( 1 + min_distance(index1 + 1, index2), 1 + min_distance(index1, index2 + 1), diff + min_distance(index1 + 1, index2 + 1), ) return min_distance(0, 0) if __name__ == "__main__": import doctest doctest.testmod()