Longest Palindromic Subsequence II

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class Solution:
    def longestPalindromeSubseq(self, s: str) -> int:
        memo = [[[-1 for _ in range(27)] for _ in range(len(s))] for _ in range(len(s))]

        def helper(i, j, prev):
            if i >= j:
                return 0
            if memo[i][j][prev] != -1:
                return memo[i][j][prev]

            if ord(s[i]) - ord('a') == prev:
                memo[i][j][prev] = helper(i + 1, j, prev)
            elif ord(s[j]) - ord('a') == prev:
                memo[i][j][prev] = helper(i, j - 1, prev)
            elif s[i] == s[j]:
                memo[i][j][prev] = helper(i + 1, j - 1, ord(s[i]) - ord('a')) + 2
            else:
                memo[i][j][prev] = max(
                    helper(i + 1, j, prev),
                    helper(i, j - 1, prev)
                )

            return memo[i][j][prev]

        return helper(0, len(s) - 1, 26)