1721. Swapping Nodes in a Linked List

Problem Link

Description

---

You are given the head of a linked list, and an integer k.

Return the head of the linked list after swapping the values of the kth node from the beginning and the kth node from the end (the list is 1-indexed).

 

Example 1:

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

Example 2:

Input: head = [7,9,6,6,7,8,3,0,9,5], k = 5
Output: [7,9,6,6,8,7,3,0,9,5]

 

Constraints:

• The number of nodes in the list is n.
• 1 <= k <= n <= 105
• 0 <= Node.val <= 100

Solution

---

Python3

# Definition for singly-linked list.
# class ListNode:
#     def __init__(self, val=0, next=None):
#         self.val = val
#         self.next = next
class Solution:
    def swapNodes(self, head: Optional[ListNode], k: int) -> Optional[ListNode]:
        fast = head
 
        for _ in range(k - 1):
            fast = fast.next
        
        first, second = head, fast
 
        while fast.next:
            first = first.next
            fast = fast.next
        
        first.val, second.val = second.val, first.val
 
        return head