London | March-2025 | Elhadj Abdoul Diallo | improve_with_precomputing

Sprint-2/improve_with_precomputing/common_prefix/common_prefix.py

@@ -7,12 +7,15 @@ def find_longest_common_prefix(strings: List[str]):
 
     In the event that an empty list, a list containing one string, or a list of strings with no common prefixes is passed, the empty string will be returned.
     """
+    if len(strings) < 2:
+        return ""
+    # Precompute: sort the strings so common prefixes are adjacent
+    sorted_strings = sorted(strings)
     longest = ""
-    for string_index, string in enumerate(strings):
-        for other_string in strings[string_index+1:]:
-            common = find_common_prefix(string, other_string)
-            if len(common) > len(longest):
-                longest = common
+    for i in range(len(sorted_strings) - 1):
+        common = find_common_prefix(sorted_strings[i], sorted_strings[i + 1])
+        if len(common) > len(longest):
+            longest = common
     return longest
 
 

Sprint-2/improve_with_precomputing/count_letters/count_letters.py

@@ -2,13 +2,9 @@ def count_letters(s: str) -> int:
     """
     count_letters returns the number of letters which only occur in upper case in the passed string.
     """
-    only_upper = set()
-    for letter in s:
-        if is_upper_case(letter):
-            if letter.lower() not in s:
-                only_upper.add(letter)
+    # Precompute all lowercase and uppercase letters in the string
+    lower_set = set(c for c in s if c.islower())
+    upper_set = set(c for c in s if c.isupper())
+    # Only count uppercase letters that do not have a lowercase version in the string
+    only_upper = {c for c in upper_set if c.lower() not in lower_set}
     return len(only_upper)
-
-
-def is_upper_case(letter: str) -> bool:
-    return letter == letter.upper()