Leetcode-Easy 72. Edit Distance

class Solution:
     def  minDistance(self, strWord1, strWord2):
        res = [[0]*(len(strWord2)+1) for _ in range(len(strWord1)+1)]

        # handle extreme conditions first
        res[len(strWord1)][len(strWord2)] = 0

        for j in range(len(strWord2)+1):
            res[len(strWord1)][j] = len(strWord2)-j

        for i in range(len(strWord1)+1):
            res[i][len(strWord2)] = len(strWord1)-i

        for i in range(len(strWord1), -1, -1):
            for j in range(len(strWord2), -1, -1):
                if i == len(strWord1) or j == len(strWord2):
                    continue
                d = 0    
                if strWord1[i]==strWord2[j]:
                    d = res[i+1][j+1]
                else:
                    d = min(res[i][j+1], res[i+1][j], res[i+1][j+1]) + 1 
                res[i][j] = d    

        return res[0][0]