CodingEasycod-g1236

Subject Data wranglingLevel Entry–Mid~10 minCommon in Algorithms & data structures interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

To populate a dropdown filter, extract the department list from a raw HR export. Each row is "name,dept". Return the distinct department names, sorted alphabetically. Example: ["ava,eng", "raj,sales", "mia,eng"] gives ["eng", "sales"].

Implement

list_departments(rows: list[str]) → list[str]

Examples

in[["ava,eng","raj,sales","mia,eng"]]out["eng","sales"]

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