1721-swapping-nodes-in-a-linked-list¶
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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(Python)¶
# 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]:
return self.constantspace(head, k)
# Time Complexity: O(n)
# Space Complexity: O(n)
def extraspace(self, head: Optional[ListNode], k: int) -> Optional[ListNode]:
arr = []
cur = head
while cur:
arr.append(cur.val)
cur = cur.next
n = len(arr)
arr[k - 1], arr[n - k] = arr[n - k], arr[k - 1]
newHead = ListNode()
cur = newHead
for i in range(n):
cur.next = ListNode(arr[i])
cur = cur.next
return newHead.next
# Time Complexity: O(n)
# Space Complexity: O(1)
def constantspace(self, head: Optional[ListNode], k: int) -> Optional[ListNode]:
cur = head
N1 = None
n = 0
while cur is not None:
if n == k - 1:
N1 = cur
cur = cur.next
n += 1
cur = head
i = 0
while cur is not None:
if i == n - k:
N2 = cur
break
cur = cur.next
i += 1
N1.val, N2.val = N2.val, N1.val
return head