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Program to find total duration of K most watched shows in Python
Suppose we have a list of list of strings called shows, also have a list of integers called durations, and another value k, here shows[i] and durations[i] represent a show and its duration watched by the ith man, we have to find the total duration watched of the k most watched shows.
So, if the input is like shows = ["The BGT", "Jack jumper", "The BGT", "Jokers Company", "Music magic"] durations = [10, 8, 10, 18, 9] k = 2, then the output will be 38, as the top 2 most watched shows are "Jokers Company" and "The BGT" and total durations is 18 and 10 + 10 = 20.
To solve this, we will follow these steps −
if shows is empty or durations is empty or k is 0, then
return 0
d := an empty dictionary
for i in range 0 to size of shows, do
d[shows[i]] := d[shows[i]] + durations[i]
l := a new list
for each i in d, do
insert d[i] at the end of l
sort the list l in reverse order
i := 0
answer := 0
while i < k, do
answer := answer + l[i]
i := i + 1
return answer
Example
Let us see the following implementation to get better understanding
from collections import defaultdict
def solve(shows, durations, k):
if not shows or not durations or not k:
return 0
d = defaultdict(int)
for i in range(len(shows)):
d[shows[i]] += durations[i]
l = []
for i in d:
l.append(d[i])
l.sort(reverse=True)
i = 0
answer = 0
while i < k:
answer += l[i]
i += 1
return answer
shows = ["The BGT", "Jack jumper", "The BGT", "Jokers Company",
"Music magic"]
durations = [10, 8, 10, 18, 9]
k = 2
print(solve(shows, durations, k))Input
["The BGT", "Jack jumper", "The BGT", "Jokers Company", "Music magic"], [10, 8, 10, 18, 9], 2
Output
38
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