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Minimum sum possible by assigning every increasing / decreasing consecutive pair with values in that order | Function to print the minimum sum of values assigned to each element of the array as per given conditions.
Initialize vectors with value 1.
Traverse from left to right.
Update if ans [ i ] > ans [ i - 1 ].
Traverse from right to left.
Update as ans [ i ] > ans [ i + 1 ] if arr [ i ] > arr [ i + 1 ].
Find the minimum sum.
Print the sum.
Driver Code.
Given array arr [ ].
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How can the above be solved in Python?

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#Here is code to minimum sum possible by assigning every increasing / decreasing consecutive pair with values in that order and the other steps required.
 def minSum ( arr , n ) :
	ans = [ 1 ] * ( n )
	for i in range ( 1 , n ) :
		if ( arr [ i ] > arr [ i - 1 ] ) :
			ans [ i ] = max ( ans [ i ] , ans [ i - 1 ] + 1 )
	for i in range ( n - 2 , - 1 , - 1 ) :
		if ( arr [ i ] > arr [ i + 1 ] ) :
			ans [ i ] = max ( ans [ i ] , ans [ i + 1 ] + 1 )
	s = 0
	for x in ans :
		s = s + x
	print ( s )
if __name__ == " _ _ main _ _ " :
	arr = [ 1 , 2 , 2 ]
	N = len ( arr )
	minSum ( arr , N )