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The student's solution demonstrates a good understanding of pandas operations for grouping and aggregating data. Here are the key points:

  1. Correctness: The solution appears correct for grouping sold products by date, counting unique products, and creating a sorted comma-separated list of products. However, without seeing the exact problem statement, it's hard to verify all requirements.

  2. Time Complexity: The groupby operation is O(n), and the aggregation operations (nunique and join) are O(m) per group where m is the number of elements in each group. The final sort is O(k log k) where k is the number of unique dates. Overall reasonable for typical datasets.

  3. Space Complexity: The solution creates a new DataFrame with one row per unique date, which is efficient. The products string concatenation could potentially use more memory for large groups.

  4. Code Quality: The code is clean and follows good practices:

    • Proper use of pandas operations
    • Clear variable naming
    • Proper indentation and formatting
    • Includes type hints (good practice)
  5. Efficiency: One potential improvement could be to use 'unique' instead of 'set' in the lambda function since pandas' unique() might be more efficient than converting to a set. Also, the sort_values could potentially be combined with the groupby operation.

Potential edge cases to consider:

  • Empty input DataFrame
  • Dates with only one product
  • Very large product lists that might make the comma-separated string unwieldy

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