Given a 2D board and a word, find if the word exists in the grid.

The word can be constructed from letters of sequentially adjacent cell, where "adjacent" cells are those horizontally or vertically neighboring. The same letter cell may not be used more than once.

For example, Given board =

[
  ['A','B','C','E'],
  ['S','F','C','S'],
  ['A','D','E','E']
]

word = "ABCCED", -> returns true, word = "SEE", -> returns true, word = "ABCB", -> returns false.

Solution: DFS

UP = (-1, 0)
DOWN = (1, 0)
LEFT = (0, -1)
RIGHT = (0, 1)


class Solution(object):
    def exist(self, board, word):
        """
        :type board: List[List[str]]
        :type word: str
        :rtype: bool
        """
        if not board:
            return False

        rows = len(board)
        cols = len(board[0])
        visited = [[False] * cols for _ in xrange(rows)]

        def neighbors(row, col):
            for x, y in UP, LEFT, DOWN, RIGHT:
                i, j = row + x, col + y
                if 0 <= i < rows and 0 <= j < cols:
                    yield i, j

        def dfs(row, col, idx):
            if visited[row][col] or board[row][col] != word[idx]:
                return False
            if idx == len(word) - 1:
                return True
            visited[row][col] = True
            for i, j in neighbors(row, col):
                if dfs(i, j, idx + 1):
                    return True
            visited[row][col] = False
            return False

        for row in xrange(rows):
            for col in xrange(cols):
                if dfs(row, col, 0):
                    return True
        return False

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