From 93d654df779c580e1755e66078975838b6845904 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William Carroll <wpcarro@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:24:16 +0000
Subject: Solve InterviewCake permutation-palindrome problem

Write a predicate to test whether any permutation of an input string is a
palindrome.
---
 .../deepmind/part_two/permutation-palindrome.py    | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 scratch/deepmind/part_two/todo.org                 |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 scratch/deepmind/part_two/permutation-palindrome.py

diff --git a/scratch/deepmind/part_two/permutation-palindrome.py b/scratch/deepmind/part_two/permutation-palindrome.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..730b4bfdc873
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scratch/deepmind/part_two/permutation-palindrome.py
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+import unittest
+from collections import Counter
+
+
+def has_palindrome_permutation(xs):
+    vs = Counter(xs).values()
+    return len([v for v in vs if v % 2 == 1]) in {0, 1}
+
+
+# Tests
+class Test(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_permutation_with_odd_number_of_chars(self):
+        result = has_palindrome_permutation('aabcbcd')
+        self.assertTrue(result)
+
+    def test_permutation_with_even_number_of_chars(self):
+        result = has_palindrome_permutation('aabccbdd')
+        self.assertTrue(result)
+
+    def test_no_permutation_with_odd_number_of_chars(self):
+        result = has_palindrome_permutation('aabcd')
+        self.assertFalse(result)
+
+    def test_no_permutation_with_even_number_of_chars(self):
+        result = has_palindrome_permutation('aabbcd')
+        self.assertFalse(result)
+
+    def test_empty_string(self):
+        result = has_palindrome_permutation('')
+        self.assertTrue(result)
+
+    def test_one_character_string(self):
+        result = has_palindrome_permutation('a')
+        self.assertTrue(result)
+
+
+unittest.main(verbosity=2)
diff --git a/scratch/deepmind/part_two/todo.org b/scratch/deepmind/part_two/todo.org
index a51ee9c59017..a710e05b83b8 100644
--- a/scratch/deepmind/part_two/todo.org
+++ b/scratch/deepmind/part_two/todo.org
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 ** DONE Cafe Order Checker
 * Hashing and hash tables
 ** DONE Inflight Entertainment
-** TODO Permutation Palindrome
+** DONE Permutation Palindrome
 ** TODO Word Cloud Data
 ** TODO Top Scores
 * Greedy Algorithms
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