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Change Null Values in a Table to the Previous Value — LeetCode 2388 Python Solution

Topics
Database
Reading time
3 min

Table schema

SQLTable schema
Table: CoffeeShop +-------------+---------+ | Column Name | Type | +-------------+---------+ | id | int | | drink | varchar | +-------------+---------+ id is the primary key (column with unique values) for this table. Each row in this table shows the order id and the name of the drink ordered.

Example

SQLExample
+-------------+---------+
| Column Name | Type    |
+-------------+---------+
| id          | int     |
| drink       | varchar |
+-------------+---------+
id is the primary key (column with unique values) for this table.
Each row in this table shows the order id and the name of the drink ordered. Some drink rows are nulls.

Python solution

PythonSolution
import duckdb
import pandas as pd

def solution(coffee_shop: pd.DataFrame) -> pd.DataFrame:
    con = duckdb.connect()
    con.register("CoffeeShop", coffee_shop)
    return con.execute("""SELECT
    id,
    CASE
        WHEN drink IS NOT NULL THEN @cur := drink
        ELSE @cur
    END AS drink
FROM CoffeeShop;""").df()

Complexity

Time
O(n log n)(typical)
Space · auxiliary
O(n)

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