Filter Restaurants by Vegan-Friendly, Price and Distance — LeetCode 1333 Python Solution

MediumArraySorting
Problem
#1333
Pattern
Sorting
Reading time
3 min

The problem

Given the array restaurants where restaurants[i] = [idi, ratingi, veganFriendlyi, pricei, distancei]. You have to filter the restaurants using three filters.

Example

Input
restaurants = [[1,4,1,40,10],[2,8,0,50,5],[3,8,1,30,4],[4,10,0,10,3],[5,1,1,15,1]], veganFriendly = 1, maxPrice = 50, maxDistance = 10
Output
[3,1,5]
Explanation
The restaurants are:

Python solution

Python
class Solution:
    def filterRestaurants(
        self,
        restaurants: List[List[int]],
        veganFriendly: int,
        maxPrice: int,
        maxDistance: int,
    ) -> List[int]:
        restaurants.sort(key=lambda x: (-x[1], -x[0]))
        ans = []
        for idx, _, vegan, price, dist in restaurants:
            if vegan >= veganFriendly and price <= maxPrice and dist <= maxDistance:
                ans.append(idx)
        return ans

Complexity

MeasureComplexity
TimeO(n log n)
SpaceO(1) to O(n) auxiliary

Pattern: Sorting

Spend O(n log n) once to buy an ordering that makes the rest of the problem trivial. LeetCode 1333. Filter Restaurants by Vegan-Friendly, Price and Distance is filed here because LeetCode tags it Sorting, which is the vocabulary this hub collects.

The sorting guide has the Python template for the pattern and the 401 LeetCode problems that use it.

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