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890. Find and Replace Pattern

Given a list of strings words and a string pattern, return a list of words[i] that match pattern. You may return the answer in any order.

A word matches the pattern if there exists a permutation of letters p so that after replacing every letter x in the pattern with p(x), we get the desired word.

Recall that a permutation of letters is a bijection from letters to letters: every letter maps to another letter, and no two letters map to the same letter.

Example 1:

Input: words = ["abc","deq","mee","aqq","dkd","ccc"], pattern = "abb"
Output: ["mee","aqq"]
Explanation: "mee" matches the pattern because there is a permutation {a -> m, b -> e, ...}.
"ccc" does not match the pattern because {a -> c, b -> c, ...} is not a permutation, since a and b map to the same letter.

Example 2:

Input: words = ["a","b","c"], pattern = "a"
Output: ["a","b","c"]

Constraints:

• 1 <= pattern.length <= 20
• 1 <= words.length <= 50
• words[i].length == pattern.length
• pattern and words[i] are lowercase English letters.

Solutions (Python)

1. Solution

class Solution:
    def findAndReplacePattern(self, words: List[str], pattern: str) -> List[str]:
        ret = []

        for word in words:
            map_wp = {}
            map_pw = {}

            for wl, pl in zip(word, pattern):
                if wl not in map_wp and pl not in map_pw:
                    map_wp[wl] = pl
                    map_pw[pl] = wl
                elif wl not in map_wp or pl not in map_pw:
                    break
                elif map_wp[wl] != pl or map_pw[pl] != wl:
                    break
            else:
                ret.append(word)

        return ret