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Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock - Leetcode 121 - Python

 Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock


You are given an array prices where prices[i] is the price of a given stock on the ith day.

You want to maximize your profit by choosing a single day to buy one stock and choosing a different day in the future to sell that stock.

Return the maximum profit you can achieve from this transaction. If you cannot achieve any profit, return 0.

 

Example 1:

Input: prices = [7,1,5,3,6,4]
Output: 5
Explanation: Buy on day 2 (price = 1) and sell on day 5 (price = 6), profit = 6-1 = 5.
Note that buying on day 2 and selling on day 1 is not allowed because you must buy before you sell.

Example 2:

Input: prices = [7,6,4,3,1]
Output: 0
Explanation: In this case, no transactions are done and the max profit = 0.

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= prices.length <= 105
  • 0 <= prices[i] <= 104

class Solution:

    def maxProfit(self, p: List[int]) -> int:

        l, r = 0, 1

        mp = 0

        

        while r < len(p):

            if p[l] < p[r]:

                pro = p[r] - p[l]

                mp = max(mp, pro)

                

            else:

                l = r

            r += 1

            

        return mp

                

Explaination :



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