Swap Nodes in Pairs

Question

Given a linked list, swap every two adjacent nodes and return its head.

For example, Given 1->2->3->4, you should return the list as 2->1->4->3.

Your algorithm should use only constant space. You may not modify the values in the list, only nodes itself can be changed.

Tags

• Linked List

Thought

Use the recursion to solve this problem.

Code

# Definition for singly-linked list.
# class ListNode(object):
#     def __init__(self, x):
#         self.val = x
#         self.next = None

class Solution(object):
    def swapPairs(self, head):
        """
        :type head: ListNode
        :rtype: ListNode
        """
        if not head or not head.next:
            return head
        prev = head
        next = head.next
        ptr = next.next
        next.next = prev
        prev.next = self.swapPairs(ptr)
        return next