To solve this problem, we need to perform four common set operations on two input lists: union, intersection, difference (first list minus second list), and symmetric difference. These operations are efficiently handled using Python's set data structure, which inherently supports these operations and automatically handles duplicates.
def list_operations(list1, list2):
set1 = set(list1)
set2 = set(list2)
return (
set1.union(set2),
set1.intersection(set2),
set1.difference(set2),
set1.symmetric_difference(set2)
)
set1.union(set2) (or set1 | set2) returns a set containing all elements from both set1 and set2.set1.intersection(set2) (or set1 & set2) returns a set containing elements that are in both set1 and set2.set1.difference(set2) (or set1 - set2) returns a set containing elements that are in set1 but not in set2.set1.symmetric_difference(set2) (or set1 ^ set2) returns a set containing elements that are in either set1 or set2 but not in both.This approach is efficient with a time complexity of O(n + m) where n and m are the lengths of the input lists, as converting a list to a set and performing set operations are linear time operations. The results are unordered (since sets are unordered) but contain all the correct elements as per the required operations.
Example Usage:
# Test case
list_a = [1, 2, 3, 3]
list_b = [3, 4, 5]
result = list_operations(list_a, list_b)
print(result)
# Output: ({1, 2, 3, 4, 5}, {3}, {1, 2}, {1, 2, 4, 5})
This solution correctly handles duplicates in the input lists and provides the expected results for all four operations. The output is a tuple of sets, which is the standard way to represent these operations in Python. If you need the results as lists, you can convert each set to a list (e.g., list(set1.union(set2))), though the order of elements in the list will be arbitrary. However, the problem statement does not specify the output type (list vs set), so using sets is appropriate here.
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