<filename>605 Can Place Flowers.py
#!/usr/bin/python3
"""
Suppose you have a long flowerbed in which some of the plots are planted and
some are not. However, flowers cannot be planted in adjacent plots - they would
compete for water and both would die.

Given a flowerbed (represented as an array containing 0 and 1, where 0 means
empty and 1 means not empty), and a number n, return if n new flowers can be
planted in it without violating the no-adjacent-flowers rule.

Example 1:
Input: flowerbed = [1,0,0,0,1], n = 1
Output: True
Example 2:
Input: flowerbed = [1,0,0,0,1], n = 2
Output: False
Note:
The input array won't violate no-adjacent-flowers rule.
The input array size is in the range of [1, 20000].
n is a non-negative integer which won't exceed the input array size.
"""
from typing import List


class Solution:
    def canPlaceFlowers(self, flowerbed: List[int], n: int) -> bool:
        """
        greedy
        """
        if n == 0:
            return True

        for i in range(len(flowerbed)):
            if (
                flowerbed[i] != 1 and
                (i + 1 >= len(flowerbed) or flowerbed[i+1] != 1) and
                (i - 1 < 0 or flowerbed[i - 1] != 1)
            ):
                n -= 1
                flowerbed[i] = 1
                if n == 0:
                    return True

        return False
