DIY: Clone Directed Graph
Solve the interview question "Clone Directed Graph" in this lesson.
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Problem statement
Given a reference of a node in a connected undirected graph, return a deep copy (clone) of the graph. The graph is represented using an adjacency list.
Each node in the graph contains a data
(int) and a list
(List[Node]) of its neighbors.
class Node {
data = None
neighbors = []
}
Input
The input graph will be in the form of an adjacency list. The following is an example input:
G = [[2,4],[1,3],[2,4],[1,3]]
Output
The output will be a deep copy of the input graph, and it will be in the form of an adjacency list. The following is an example output:
G` = [[2,4],[1,3],[2,4],[1,3]]
Coding exercise
Implement the clone(root_node)
function, where root_node
is the input’s graph starting node through which the rest of the graph can be traversed. The function returns the root node of the cloned graph.
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