Discussion on: Coding Puzzles: Week of 4/8

[russ]

Oh my, it even works in python!

def stray(arr):
    count = {}
    for index, i in enumerate(arr):
        count[i] = count.setdefault(i, 0) + 1
        if index >= 2 and len(count.keys()) > 1:
            break
    return next(k for k, v in count.items() if v == 1)

from functools import reduce

def intstray(arr: [int]):
    return reduce(lambda x,y: x ^ y, arr)

assert(intstray([1, 1, 2]) == 2)
#nope..!
#assert(intstray([1, 1, 2, 1]) == 2)
assert(intstray([17, 17, 3, 17, 17, 17, 17]) == 3)
assert(intstray([1, 2, 2]) == 1)
assert(stray(["bob", "bob", "bob", "steve", "bob"]) == "steve")

[Laurie]

This is one of those moments when I wish gifs worked better on Dev. But yay!

[Ali Spittel]

They should work in normal image markdown!

[Laurie]

Whaaa?! How did I not know this! ...game changer