Longest Repeating Character Replacement

def characterReplacement(s, k):
    n = len(s)
    best = 0
    for start in range(n):
        count = [0] * 26  # letters in s[start..end]
        top = 0           # count of the most common letter there
        for end in range(start, n):
            c = ord(s[end]) - ord('A')
            count[c] += 1
            top = max(top, count[c])
            # Every letter that is not the most common one must change.
            if end - start + 1 - top <= k:
                best = max(best, end - start + 1)
    return best

def characterReplacement(s, k):
    best = 0
    for target in "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ":
        left = 0
        others = 0  # letters in s[left..right] that are not target
        for right in range(len(s)):
            if s[right] != target:
                others += 1
            # Too many letters to change: drop letters from the left.
            while others > k:
                if s[left] != target:
                    others -= 1
                left += 1
            best = max(best, right - left + 1)
    return best

def characterReplacement(s, k):
    count = [0] * 26  # letters inside the window s[left..right]
    left = 0
    top = 0  # the highest count any letter has reached in a window
    for right in range(len(s)):
        c = ord(s[right]) - ord('A')
        count[c] += 1
        top = max(top, count[c])
        # Needs more than k changes: slide the window instead of growing it.
        if right - left + 1 - top > k:
            count[ord(s[left]) - ord('A')] -= 1
            left += 1
    # The window only grew when a longer valid substring was found.
    return len(s) - left