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Merge Sorted Lists With Dedup

MediumPython

Problem

Write a program to merge two sorted linked lists, remove any duplicate elements, and return the sorted result.

Assume each list is represented by a ListNode with val and next, and return the head of a linked list containing each value once.

For example, [1, 2, 4] and [1, 3, 4] produce [1, 2, 3, 4]; inputs may be empty and contain negative or repeated values.

Constraints

  • Each input list is sorted in nondecreasing order.
  • 0 <= length(head1), length(head2) <= 300
  • -10^9 <= node.val <= 10^9
  • The input lists may contain repeated values.
  • The returned list must be sorted in nondecreasing order with no duplicate values.

Function Signature

def merge_unique_lists(head1, head2):
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