Removing Stars from a String - Leetcode 2390 - Python

Leetcode Daily Challenge - April 11, 2023
Leetcode 2390. Removing Stars from a String - Python Solution

Problem Statement
You are given a string s, which contains stars *.
In one operation, you can:
* Choose a star in s.
* Remove the closest non-star character to its left, as well as remove the star itself.
Return the string after all stars have been removed.

Note:
The input will be generated such that the operation is always possible.
It can be shown that the resulting string will always be unique.
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[nikhil_a]

The solution idea is fine, but the code would be a lot nicer if you used a for loop instead of a while loop:

```
class Solution:
def removeStars(self, s: str) -> str:
stack = []
for char in s:
if char == "*":
stack.pop()
else:
stack.append(char)
return ''.join(stack)
```

Also, the audio quality is pretty bad.