Daily Coding Problem: Problem #22

problem22.py

"""
This problem was asked by Microsoft.

Given a dictionary of words and a string made up of those words (no spaces), return the original sentence in a list. If there is more than one possible reconstruction, return any of them. If there is no possible reconstruction, then return null.

For example, given the set of words 'quick', 'brown', 'the', 'fox', and the string "thequickbrownfox", you should return ['the', 'quick', 'brown', 'fox'].

Given the set of words 'bed', 'bath', 'bedbath', 'and', 'beyond', and the string "bedbathandbeyond", return either ['bed', 'bath', 'and', 'beyond] or ['bedbath', 'and', 'beyond'].

https://dailycodingproblem.com/
"""
import itertools
import unittest

def problem22(dictionary, word):
    all_combinations = []
    sentences = []
    for i in range(2, len(dictionary)+1):
        all_combinations += itertools.permutations(dictionary, i)
    for c in all_combinations:
        if ''.join(c) == word:
            sentences.append(list(c))
    return sentences


class TestProblem22(unittest.TestCase):

    def test_a(self):
        dictionary = ['quick', 'brown', 'the', 'fox']
        word = 'thequickbrownfox'
        result = [['the','quick','brown','fox']]
        self.assertItemsEqual(problem22(dictionary, word), result)


    def test_b(self):
        dictionary = ['bed','bath','bedbath','and','beyond']
        word = 'bedbathandbeyond'
        result = [['bed','bath','and','beyond'],['bedbath','and','beyond']]
        self.assertItemsEqual(problem22(dictionary, word), result)

Hey, I tested your solution with the following input and it doesn't work

dictionary = {"bedbathandbeyond", "and", "bath"}
word = "bedbathandbeyond"

def reconstruction(words, s):
    words = set(words)
    res = []

    n = len(s)
    i = j = 0

    while j < n:
        if s[i:j+1] in words:
            res.append(s[i:j+1])
            i = j + 1
        else:
            if j == n - 1:
                return None
        
        j += 1
    
    return res

dictionary = ['bed', 'bath', 'bedbath', 'and', 'beyond']
word = 'bedbathandbeyond'
result = [['bed', 'bath', 'and', 'beyond'], ['bedbath', 'and', 'beyond']]
assert reconstruction(dictionary, word) in result

dictionary = ['quick', 'brown', 'the', 'fox']
word = 'thequickbrownfox'
result = [['the','quick','brown','fox']]
assert reconstruction(dictionary, word) in result

dictionary = ['quick', 'the', 'fox']
word = 'thequickbrownfox'
assert reconstruction(dictionary, word) is None