Lexicographically Minimum String After Removing Stars | LeetCode 3170 - Python

[itsmoonemoji]

I am still waiting for the video about how you became that good at algos.

[itsmoonemoji]

This part is quite confusing:

while smallest != 'z' and len(hashmap[smallest]) == 0:
smallest = chr(ord(smallest) + 1)

I assume we take next char after smallest and keep looping hashmap until we find a character with [indexes]?

[vishaalkumaranandan]

It took me few minuites to understand certain part of code. You could have explained this one better