Number of Unique Subjects Taught by Each Teacher — LeetCode 2356 Python Solution

EasyDatabase
Problem
#2356
Reading time
2 min

Table schema

SQL
Table: Teacher +-------------+------+ | Column Name | Type | +-------------+------+ | teacher_id | int | | subject_id | int | | dept_id | int | +-------------+------+ (subject_id, dept_id) is the primary key (combinations of columns with unique values) of this table. Each row in this table indicates that the teacher with teacher_id teaches the subject subject_id in the department dept_id.

Example

SQL
+-------------+------+
| Column Name | Type |
+-------------+------+
| teacher_id  | int  |
| subject_id  | int  |
| dept_id     | int  |
+-------------+------+
(subject_id, dept_id) is the primary key (combinations of columns with unique values) of this table.
Each row in this table indicates that the teacher with teacher_id teaches the subject subject_id in the department dept_id.

Python solution

Python
import duckdb
import pandas as pd

def solution(teacher: pd.DataFrame) -> pd.DataFrame:
    con = duckdb.connect()
    con.register("Teacher", teacher)
    return con.execute("""SELECT teacher_id, COUNT(DISTINCT subject_id) AS cnt
FROM Teacher
GROUP BY 1;""").df()

Complexity

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

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