Code Challenge of the Day — First occurrence (leftmost) (medium)

Picks up where Binary search left off.

You wrote binary search. Extend it: with duplicates, return the leftmost index of target, or -1.
Write first_occurrence(nums, target).

Starter:

def first_occurrence(nums, target):
    # TODO
    pass

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