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#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# author: bt3gl
"""
You are given two integer arrays nums1 and nums2, sorted in non-decreasing order, and two
integers m and n, representing the number of elements in nums1 and nums2 respectively.
Merge nums1 and nums2 into a single array sorted in non-decreasing order.
The final sorted array should not be returned by the function,
but instead be stored inside the array nums1.
To accommodate this, nums1 has a length of m + n, where the first m elements denote the elements
that should be merged, and the last n elements are set to 0 and should be ignored. nums2 has a length of n.
"""
def merge(big_list: list[int], m: int, small_list: list[int], n: int) -> None:
index_big, index_small, index_backward = m - 1, n - 1, m + n - 1
while index_big >= 0 and index_small >= 0:
if small_list[index_small] > big_list[index_big]:
big_list[index_backward] = small_list[index_small]
index_small -= 1
else:
big_list[index_backward] = big_list[index_big]
index_big -= 1
index_backward -= 1
while index_backward >= 0 and index_big >= 0:
big_list[index_backward] = big_list[index_big]
index_backward -= 1
index_big -= 1
while index_backward >= 0 and index_small >= 0:
big_list[index_backward] = small_list[index_small]
index_backward -= 1
index_small -= 1