Codility编程课一 Find unpaired element

Task description

A non-empty array A consisting of N integers is given. The array contains an odd number of elements, and each element of the array can be paired with another element that has the same value, except for one element that is left unpaired.

For example, in array A such that:

A[0] = 9 A[1] = 3 A[2] = 9
A[3] = 3 A[4] = 9 A[5] = 7
A[6] = 9
the elements at indexes 0 and 2 have value 9,
the elements at indexes 1 and 3 have value 3,
the elements at indexes 4 and 6 have value 9,
the element at index 5 has value 7 and is unpaired.
Write a function:

def solution(A)

that, given an array A consisting of N integers fulfilling the above conditions, returns the value of the unpaired element.

For example, given array A such that:

A[0] = 9 A[1] = 3 A[2] = 9
A[3] = 3 A[4] = 9 A[5] = 7
A[6] = 9
the function should return 7, as explained in the example above.

Assume that:

N is an odd integer within the range [1..1,000,000];
each element of array A is an integer within the range [1..1,000,000,000];
all but one of the values in A occur an even number of times.
Complexity:

expected worst-case time complexity is O(N);
expected worst-case space complexity is O(1) (not counting the storage required for input arguments).

题目要求就是寻找非空列表中的single dog

def solution(A):
  A = sorted(A)#现将列表排序好处理
  ll = len(A) - 1
  if ll==0:#唯一元素列表直接返回
    return A[0]
  ret = A[0]
  if A[ll] != A[ll - 1]:#处理最后一个元素的特殊情况
    return A[ll]
  nos = 0
  while True:#处理正常情况，两个一组做比较，进位为2，减少循环次数，如果比较到n和n+1不相等则返回n,over
    if A[nos] == A[nos+1]:
      nos += 2
      continue
    ret = A[nos]
    break
  return ret

>>> solution([9,3,3])
9
>>> solution([9,9,3,7,9,3,7,10])
10
>>> solution([9,3,9,3,9,7,9])
7
>>> solution([9])
9