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Reverse a Subarray
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Reverse a Subarray

EasyPython

Problem

Yahoo News prepares a sequence of feed item IDs for display. To support a presentation mode, reverse the sequence in contiguous groups of k items. If the final group contains fewer than k items, reverse that group as well.

Modify the input list in place and return the same list.

Formal Specification

Implement reverse_in_groups(nums, k), where nums is a list of integers representing feed item IDs and k is a positive group size. Reverse the elements within each consecutive group of at most k elements. The relative order of different groups must not change.

Examples

Example 1

Input: nums = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7], k = 3
Output: [3, 2, 1, 6, 5, 4, 7]

The first two complete groups are reversed, and the final one-element group remains unchanged.

Example 2

Input: nums = [10, 20, 30, 40, 50], k = 2
Output: [20, 10, 40, 30, 50]

Each pair is reversed, followed by the final one-element group.

Constraints

  • 1 <= len(nums) <= 10^5
  • 1 <= k <= 10^5
  • -10^9 <= nums[i] <= 10^9
  • The operation must use O(1) auxiliary space
  • The final group is reversed even when it contains fewer than k elements

Function Signature

def reverse_in_groups(nums, k):
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