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The First Encounter

A easy Python interview practice problem on DataDriven. Write and execute real python code with instant grading.

Domain
Python
Difficulty
easy
Seniority
junior, mid

Problem

Your team is building a data quality tool that needs to track the first time each unique value appears in a sequence. Given a string, return a dictionary mapping each character to the index of its first occurrence. Characters that appear multiple times should only record the first position.

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