Apples & Oranges — LeetCode 1445 Python Solution

MediumLeetCode PremiumDatabase
Problem
#1445
Reading time
2 min

Table schema

SQL
Table: Sales +---------------+---------+ | Column Name | Type | +---------------+---------+ | sale_date | date | | fruit | enum | | sold_num | int | +---------------+---------+ (sale_date, fruit) is the primary key (combination of columns with unique values) of this table. This table contains the sales of "apples" and "oranges" sold each day.

Example

SQL
+---------------+---------+
| Column Name   | Type    |
+---------------+---------+
| sale_date     | date    |
| fruit         | enum    | 
| sold_num      | int     | 
+---------------+---------+
(sale_date, fruit) is the primary key (combination of columns with unique values) of this table.
This table contains the sales of "apples" and "oranges" sold each day.

Python solution

Python
import duckdb
import pandas as pd

def solution(sales: pd.DataFrame) -> pd.DataFrame:
    con = duckdb.connect()
    con.register("Sales", sales)
    return con.execute("""SELECT
    sale_date,
    SUM(IF(fruit = 'apples', sold_num, -sold_num)) AS diff
FROM Sales
GROUP BY 1
ORDER BY 1;""").df()

Complexity

MeasureComplexity
TimeO(n log n) (typical)
SpaceO(n) auxiliary

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