[Leet Code] Uncommon Words from Two Sentences

Matthew Boyd
1 min readJan 8, 2021

Leetcode: https://leetcode.com/problems/uncommon-words-from-two-sentences/

Problem:

We are given two sentences A and B. (A sentence is a string of space separated words. Each word consists only of lowercase letters.)

A word is uncommon if it appears exactly once in one of the sentences, and does not appear in the other sentence.

Return a list of all uncommon words.

You may return the list in any order.

Example 1:

Input: A = "this apple is sweet", B = "this apple is sour"
Output: ["sweet","sour"]

Example 2:

Input: A = "apple apple", B = "banana"
Output: ["banana"]

Note:

  1. 0 <= A.length <= 200
  2. 0 <= B.length <= 200
  3. A and B both contain only spaces and lowercase letters.

Solution:

class Solution(object):
def uncommonFromSentences(self, A, B):
"""
:type A: str
:type B: str
:rtype: List[str]
"""
answers = {}
A = A.split(" ")
B = B.split(" ")
lol = A + B
for i in lol:
if i in answers:
answers[i] = answers[i] + 1
else:
answers[i] = 1


answers_final = []

for i in answers.items():
if i[1] == 1:
answers_final.append(i[0])
return answers_final

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