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Can you provide a code to maximum types of candies a person can eat if only N / 2 of them can be eaten and the other steps required given the following:
Maximum types of candies a person can eat if only N / 2 of them can be eaten | Function to find number of candy types.
Declare a hashset to store candies.
Traverse the given array and inserts element into set.
Return the result.
Function to find maximum number of types of candies a person can eat.
Store the number of candies allowed to eat.
Store the number of candy types.
Return the result.
Driver Code.
Given Input.
Function Call"
How can the above be solved in Python?
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#Here is code to maximum types of candies a person can eat if only N / 2 of them can be eaten and the other steps required.
 def num_candyTypes ( candies ) :
	s = set ( )
	for i in range ( len ( candies ) ) :
		s . add ( candies [ i ] )
	return len ( s )
def distribute_candies ( candies ) :
	allowed = len ( candies ) / 2
	types = num_candyTypes ( candies )
	if ( types < allowed ) :
		print ( int ( types ) )
	else :
		print ( int ( allowed ) )
if __name__ == ' _ _ main _ _ ' :
	candies = [ 4 , 4 , 5 , 5 , 3 , 3 ]
	distribute_candies ( candies )