AMONG ALL THE METHODS ONLY THIS METHOD GET TO PASS ALL TEST CASES AND IT TAKES ME 2 DAYS TO FIGURE THIS OUT EVEN THOUGH WHEN I STARTED IT FEELS SO EASY BUT COUNTINEUSLY ITS WAS EITHER GETING FIRST 2 TEST CASE PASS OR ONLY 1

Extract layers

for layer in range(num_layers):
    current_layer = []

    # Top row
    for j in range(layer, m - layer):
        current_layer.append(matrix[layer][j])

    # Right column
    for j in range(layer + 1, n - layer - 1):
        current_layer.append(matrix[j][m - layer - 1])

    # Bottom row
    for j in range(m - layer - 1, layer - 1, -1):
        if n - layer - 1 > layer:  # Avoid duplicates in single row
            current_layer.append(matrix[n - layer - 1][j])

    # Left column
    for j in range(n - layer - 2, layer, -1):
        if m - layer - 1 > layer:  # Avoid duplicates in single column
            current_layer.append(matrix[j][layer])

    layers.append(current_layer)