Merge Sorted Array

https://leetcode.com/problems/merge-sorted-array/

Question

Given two sorted integer arrays nums1 and nums2, merge nums2 into nums1 as one sorted array.

Note:

• The number of elements initialized in nums1 and nums2 are m and n respectively.

• You may assume that nums1 has enough space (size that is equal to m + n) to hold additional elements from nums2.

Example:

Input:
nums1 = [1,2,3,0,0,0], m = 3
nums2 = [2,5,6],       n = 3

Output: [1,2,2,3,5,6]

Answer

def merge(self, nums1, m, nums2, n):
        nums1[m:] = nums2[:n]
        nums1.sort()

This actually does it entirely in-place.

However, the interviewer is probably looking for:

def merge(self, nums1, m, nums2, n):
        while m > 0 and n > 0:
            if nums1[m-1] >= nums2[n-1]:
                nums1[m+n-1] = nums1[m-1]
                m -= 1
            else:
                nums1[m+n-1] = nums2[n-1]
                n -= 1
        if n > 0:
            nums1[:n] = nums2[:n]