Contains Duplicate

Given an array of integers, find if the array contains any duplicates.

Your function should return true if any value appears at least twice in the array, and it should return false if every element is distinct.

Solution

from collections import defaultdict

class Solution(object):
    def containsDuplicate(self, nums):
        """
        :type nums: List[int]
        :rtype: bool
        """
        result = defaultdict(int)

        for i in nums:
            result[i] += 1
            if result[i] > 1:
                return True
        return False