栈应用：有效的括号（第一题）

问题：

给定一个只包括 '('，')'，'{'，'}'，'['，']' 的字符串，判断字符串是否有效。

有效字符串需满足：

1. 左括号必须用相同类型的右括号闭合。
2. 左括号必须以正确的顺序闭合。

注意空字符串可被认为是有效字符串。

分析：

三种模式的括号可能会出现 ' { [ ( } '  这种情况 所以单纯的通过计数方法来匹配肯定不行

这里运用栈这种数据结构的特点：先进后出 FIFO

遇上左括号直接压栈，右括号直接出栈并匹配，接着上代码

class Solution(object):
    def isValid(self, s):
        """
        :type s: str
        :rtype: bool
        """

        # The stack to keep track of opening brackets.
        stack = []

        # Hash map for keeping track of mappings. This keeps the code very clean.
        # Also makes adding more types of parenthesis easier
        mapping = {")": "(", "}": "{", "]": "["}

        # For every bracket in the expression.
        for char in s:

            # If the character is an closing bracket
            if char in mapping:

                # Pop the topmost element from the stack, if it is non empty
                # Otherwise assign a dummy value of '#' to the top_element variable
                top_element = stack.pop() if stack else '#'

                # The mapping for the opening bracket in our hash and the top
                # element of the stack don't match, return False
                if mapping[char] != top_element:
                    return False
            else:
                # We have an opening bracket, simply push it onto the stack.
                stack.append(char)

        # In the end, if the stack is empty, then we have a valid expression.
        # The stack won't be empty for cases like ((()
        return not stack

参考：https://leetcode-cn.com/articles/valid-parentheses/