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Implement Directed Graph Cycle Detection
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Implement Directed Graph Cycle Detection

HardPython

Problem

Implement a function to detect a cycle in a directed graph, where the graph represents network connections between routers.

Use an adjacency list, where graph[i] contains the router indices directly reachable from router i. Return True if any directed cycle exists, including a self-loop, and False otherwise.

Function signature: has_cycle(graph). The input is a list of lists of integers, and the output is a Boolean.

Constraints

  • 0 <= len(graph) <= 1000
  • Each neighbor is an integer in the range 0 to len(graph) - 1
  • The graph may contain disconnected components
  • The graph may contain parallel directed edges
  • Return only a Boolean value

Function Signature

def has_cycle(graph):
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