<p>You are given a string <code>s</code> containing lowercase letters and an integer <code>k</code>. You need to :</p>

<ul>
	<li>First, change some characters of <code>s</code> to other lowercase English letters.</li>
	<li>Then divide <code>s</code> into <code>k</code> non-empty disjoint substrings such that each substring is a palindrome.</li>
</ul>

<p>Return <em>the minimal number of characters that you need to change to divide the string</em>.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong class="example">Example 1:</strong></p>

<pre>
<strong>Input:</strong> s = &quot;abc&quot;, k = 2
<strong>Output:</strong> 1
<strong>Explanation:</strong>&nbsp;You can split the string into &quot;ab&quot; and &quot;c&quot;, and change 1 character in &quot;ab&quot; to make it palindrome.
</pre>

<p><strong class="example">Example 2:</strong></p>

<pre>
<strong>Input:</strong> s = &quot;aabbc&quot;, k = 3
<strong>Output:</strong> 0
<strong>Explanation:</strong>&nbsp;You can split the string into &quot;aa&quot;, &quot;bb&quot; and &quot;c&quot;, all of them are palindrome.</pre>

<p><strong class="example">Example 3:</strong></p>

<pre>
<strong>Input:</strong> s = &quot;leetcode&quot;, k = 8
<strong>Output:</strong> 0
</pre>

<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Constraints:</strong></p>

<ul>
	<li><code>1 &lt;= k &lt;= s.length &lt;= 100</code>.</li>
	<li><code>s</code> only contains lowercase English letters.</li>
</ul>

from functools import lru_cache

class Solution:
    def palindromePartition(self, s: str, k: int) -> int:
        
        @lru_cache(None)
        def cost(i, j=len(s)-1):
            return 0 if i >= j else cost(i+1,j-1) + (s[i] != s[j])
        
        ans = [cost(i) for i in range(len(s))]
        for j in range(k-1):
            for i in range(len(s)-j-1):
                ans[i] = min((ans[l+1] + cost(i, l) for l in range(i, len(s)-j-1)), default=0)
                
        return ans[0]
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