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Find Duplicates in a List
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Find Duplicates in a List

EasyPython

Problem

Find the duplicates in a list in the order they appear.

Asked in the R2 Technical Managerial stage. Python coding question.

Write a function that takes a list of integers and returns the duplicate values in the order they are first detected as duplicates. A value should appear in the output only the first time it repeats, even if it occurs more than twice.

Function Signature

def find_duplicates(nums):

Input

  • nums: a list of integers

Output

  • Return a list of integers containing each duplicated value once, in the order their second occurrence appears.

Constraints

  • 0 <= len(nums) <= 10^5
  • -10^9 <= nums[i] <= 10^9
  • The output must contain each duplicated value at most once

Function Signature

def find_duplicates(nums):
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