Create maximum-number-of-non-overlapping-palindrome-substrings.py

Author: kamyu104

Python/maximum-number-of-non-overlapping-palindrome-substrings.py

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+# Time:  O(n * k)
+# Space: O(1)
+
+# greedy
+class Solution(object):
+    def maxPalindromes(self, s, k):
+        """
+        :type s: str
+        :type k: int
+        :rtype: int
+        """
+        result = prev = 0
+        for mid in xrange(2*len(s)-1):
+            left, right = mid//2, mid//2+mid%2
+            while left >= prev and right < len(s) and s[left] == s[right]:
+                if right-left+1 >= k:
+                    prev = right+1
+                    result += 1
+                    break
+                left, right = left-1, right+1
+        return result