Code RoomInner equi-join
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Inner equi-join

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresMid–Senior~30 min

Implement an inner equi-join. `users` is a list of dicts with keys 'id' and 'name'; `orders` is a list of dicts with keys 'user_id' and 'total'. Return a list of [name, total] pairs, one per order whose 'user_id' matches some user 'id'. Multiple users may share an id (treat them all as matches). Preserve the order of `orders`, and within a single order break ties by ascending user 'name'. Ids are ints; names are strings.

Implement
inner_join(users: list[dict], orders: list[dict]) → list[list]
Examples
in[[{"id":1,"name":"ann"},{"id":2,"name":"bob"}],[{"total":50,"user_id":2},{"total":30,"user_id":1},{"total":99,"user_id":9}]]out[["bob",50],["ann",30]]
What a strong answer looks like

State your approach and its time/space complexity out loud before you optimize. Handle the edge cases (empty input, duplicates, overflow), and say why you chose this over the brute force. Green tests are the floor, not the grade.

0:00 of about 30 min
InputExpectedGot
[[{"id":1,"name":"ann"},{"id":2,"name":"bob"}],[{"total":50,"user_id":2},{"total":30,"user_id":1},{"total":99,"user_id":9}]][["bob",50],["ann",30]]not run yetsample