Leetcode - Basic Calculator (Python)

September 2021 Leetcode Challenge
Leetcode - Basic Calculator #224
Difficulty: Hard

[yang]

How does every other youtuber spend 20 minutes badly explaining their process yet this guy elegantly explains the problem in 7 minutes ?

[thetiltfactory]

I was asked this problem in a FAANG company in November and wish should've come across your channel earlier

[thechinweibegbu]

After trying to solve this at timestamp 48:12:91, only having passed 8 test cases out of 46, seeing this straightforward approach and really intuitive code is discouraging me, I cannot lie. I have to keep going, I know, but sometimes I wonder if I am simply incapable of solving some questions. I would like to think that is not the case.

[sardinesdinner]

shouldn't we do cur = 0 in the c="(" loop, to calculate what's in the brackets? I tried that and it still works...

[janmichaelaustria]

The recursive solutions in the discussion are so hard to understand -___-

[chrisrectenwald]

Is this your first time seeing the problem?