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Minimize replacement of characters to its nearest alphabet to make a string palindromic | Function to find the minimum number of operations required to convert th given string into palindrome.
Iterate till half of the string.
Find the absolute difference between the characters.
Adding the minimum difference of the two result.
Return the result.
Given string.
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How can the above be solved in Python?
 ... Write me a code to minimize replacement of characters to its nearest alphabet to make a string palindromic and the other steps required?
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#Here is code to minimize replacement of characters to its nearest alphabet to make a string palindromic and the other steps required.
 def minOperations ( s ) :
	length = len ( s )
	result = 0
	for i in range ( length // 2 ) :
		D1 = ( ord ( max ( s [ i ] , s [ length - 1 - i ] ) ) - ord ( min ( s [ i ] , s [ length - 1 - i ] ) ) )
		D2 = 26 - D1
		result += min ( D1 , D2 )
	return result
s = " abccdb "
print ( minOperations ( s ) )