876. Middle of the Linked List

Posted 2021-01-14 bernieloveslife

Given a non-empty, singly linked list with head node head, return a middle node of linked list.

If there are two middle nodes, return the second middle node.

Example 1:

Input: [1,2,3,4,5]
Output: Node 3 from this list (Serialization: [3,4,5])
The returned node has value 3. (The judge‘s serialization of this node is [3,4,5]).
Note that we returned a ListNode object ans, such that:
ans.val = 3, ans.next.val = 4, ans.next.next.val = 5, and ans.next.next.next = NULL.

Example 2:

Input: [1,2,3,4,5,6]
Output: Node 4 from this list (Serialization: [4,5,6])
Since the list has two middle nodes with values 3 and 4, we return the second one.

Note:

• The number of nodes in the given list will be between 1 and 100.

# Definition for singly-linked list.
class ListNode:
    def __init__(self, x):
        self.val = x
        self.next = None

class Solution:
    def middleNode(self, head):
        """
        :type head: ListNode
        :rtype: ListNode
        """
        if head is None:
            return head
        fast,slow = head,head
        while fast.next and fast.next.next:
            fast = fast.next.next
            slow = slow.next
        if fast.next:
            slow = slow.next
        return slow