Finding the Topic of Each Post — LeetCode 2199 Python Solution

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Problem
#2199
Reading time
3 min

Table schema

SQL
Table: Keywords +-------------+---------+ | Column Name | Type | +-------------+---------+ | topic_id | int | | word | varchar | +-------------+---------+ (topic_id, word) is the primary key (combination of columns with unique values) for this table. Each row of this table contains the id of a topic and a word that is used to express this topic.

Example

SQL
+-------------+---------+
| Column Name | Type    |
+-------------+---------+
| topic_id    | int     |
| word        | varchar |
+-------------+---------+
(topic_id, word) is the primary key (combination of columns with unique values) for this table.
Each row of this table contains the id of a topic and a word that is used to express this topic.
There may be more than one word to express the same topic and one word may be used to express multiple topics.

Python solution

Python
import duckdb
import pandas as pd

def solution(keywords: pd.DataFrame, posts: pd.DataFrame) -> pd.DataFrame:
    con = duckdb.connect()
    con.register("Keywords", keywords)
    con.register("Posts", posts)
    return con.execute("""SELECT
    post_id,
    IFNULL(GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT topic_id), 'Ambiguous!') AS topic
FROM
    Posts
    LEFT JOIN Keywords ON INSTR(CONCAT(' ', content, ' '), CONCAT(' ', word, ' ')) > 0
GROUP BY post_id;""").df()

Complexity

MeasureComplexity
TimeO(n log n) (typical)
SpaceO(n) auxiliary

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