Coding Practice for Security | Dataford Interview Questions

Tell me about your approach to coding practice questions like LeetCode easy or medium.

For this hands-on version, write a function that counts practice questions by difficulty. Return the number labeled easy and medium in a two-element list.

Input and Output

difficulties is a list of lowercase strings. Return [easy_count, medium_count]. Ignore any other labels.

Constraints

0 <= len(difficulties) <= 10^5
Each label is one of "easy", "medium", or "hard"
Return counts in the order [easy_count, medium_count]

Function Signature

def count_practice_levels(difficulties):

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