HackerRank "New Year Chaos"

Two tricks here:

1. Counting no. of inversed pairs - using Merge Sort, nothing special

2. How to check 'chaotic'? We simply check if any number is over 2 slots away from its own slot : )

#!/bin/python3

import sys

ret = 0
def merge(arr1, arr2):
    global ret
    if not arr1: return arr2
    if not arr2: return arr1
    for v2 in arr2:
        arr1.append(v2)
        i = len(arr1) - 1
        while(i > 0):
            if arr1[i] < arr1[i - 1]:
                arr1[i - 1],arr1[i] = arr1[i], arr1[i - 1]
                i -= 1
                ret += 1
            else:
                break
    return arr1

def mergeSort(arr):
    n = len(arr)
    if (n < 2): return arr
    return merge(mergeSort(arr[:n//2]), mergeSort(arr[n//2:]))

T = int(input().strip())
for _ in range(T):
    ret = 0
    n = int(input().strip())
    q = [int(q_temp) for q_temp in input().strip().split(' ')]
    # your code goes here
    bTooCh = False
    for i in range(n):
        if q[i] - i > 3:
            bTooCh = True
            break
    if bTooCh:
        print ("Too chaotic")
        continue

    mergeSort(q)
    print (ret)