adamspj profile - python coding challenges

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without re, 6 lines-kdim 1

Voodoo! But good. I was looking to see how it would be done without re. It's a bit sneaky the way you got the part() function to do double duty, essentially behaving as two functions in one and packing the two different results into a list. It has to be admitted that this is somewhat cryptic, in th More

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gleb10101010101

First-gleb10101010101 1 1

If you want to go wacky, what about return (a ** ((a | 1 ) / (1 | a))) * (b ** ((b | 1) / (1 | b))) More

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Ali.Pxl

First-Ali.Pxl 1 1

I overcomplicated things, whereas this is straightforward and clear. More

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kdim

combinations_with_replacement-kdim 1

You're forcing me to learn a little more about lambda functions and the alias "check" that you used here. It surprised me to see that you could declare pr = primefactors(n) AFTER pr is used in the lambda function, named "check." But it works! I experimented with this in very primitive form: More

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tamagoyaki

not recurring solusion-tamagoyaki 1

Interesting, though I was a bit confused at first about how you were popping out a list then inserting back the elements into array to be processed again in subsequent iterations. Ultimately, it does make sense. More

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kdim

clear and readable-kdim 1

This is helpful in several ways, including the for look catching two values and the illustrative use of setdefault. More

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Phil15

max(start_watching or end, end)-Phil15 1

Sorry, this is not "clear". It may be clever, but the terseness is the opposite of clear. It reduces readability. More

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Phil15

max(..., key, default)-Phil15 1

I've got to give you credit since I've never used the default argument to max before, and thus I've learned. More

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Tinus_Trotyl

Downward-Tinus_Trotyl 1 1

It's clever and aesthetic as a kind of concrete poetry (look at the cascade of indents!), but it's not very readable. It's a puzzle of sorts (which ultimately makes sense when it's "solved" by the reader). I'd categorize it as "creative," but for the sake of clarity, add some comments. E.g. \# Chec More

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Kolia951

Datetime of course-Kolia951 1 1

You've shown good knowledge of the .strptime() and .strftime() methods. However, you could avoid rebuilding the format of iso datetimes by using the lfromisoformat() and .isoformat() methods instead. It's good to see you returned a string as requested. So many solutions did not; they often returned More

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kdim

generator-kdim 1

Cool, and yet another thing I have to learn to make use of: "yield from". More

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kdim

clear-kdim 1

This was a little hard for me to analyze, but having done the same mission, it made sense to me in the end. The main good thing is I learned from it, particularly the use of the star operator in the assignment right at the beginning. I've never unpacked a list in an assignment this way. The handlin More

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amandel

Logical-amandel 1

Wow, this was mind-bending for me because I'd never before tried using logical "and" and "or" between non-Boolean values. I tried to compare in my mind to bitwise & and |, but that wasn't right. I learned the right way once upon a time, but forgot it because I never actually put it to use. But now I More

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U.V

POP-APPEND-U.V 1

The "range(len(items)-1,-1,-1)" feels a little clunky. You could try: for i in range(1, len(items)): if not items[-i]... More

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tamagoyaki

First-tamagoyaki 1 1

Hmmm... I guess subtracting max of lists of zero works, though I'd think an if statement is clearer for reading. More

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Sim0000

count-Sim0000 1

I like the c = instructions.count. Whereas I don't always like abbreviating function (method) names like this, in the particular case, where the whole thing is simple, the readability of the code is actually improved and it remains perfectly clear. More