so i took the codility interview test yesterday and was informed today that i failed, unfortunately i wasnt given any other information by either codility nor the employer as to where i screwed up so i would appreciate some help in knowing where i went wrong. i know codility pays alot of emphasis on how fast …
Tag: python
How to reliably guess the encoding between MacRoman, CP1252, Latin1, UTF-8, and ASCII
At work it seems like no week ever passes without some encoding-related conniption, calamity, or catastrophe. The problem usually derives from programmers who think they can reliably process a “text” file without specifying the encoding. But you can’t. So it’s been decided to henceforth forbid fil…
Regex for tree structures?
Are there regular expression equivalents for searching and modifying tree structures? Concise mini-languages (like perl regex) are what I am looking for. Here is an example that might clarify what I am looking for. An operation that would be possible on the above tree is “move subtree at node 2.1 into t…
Is there a benefit to defining a class inside another class in Python?
What I’m talking about here are nested classes. Essentially, I have two classes that I’m modeling. A DownloadManager class and a DownloadThread class. The obvious OOP concept here is composition. However, composition doesn’t necessarily mean nesting, right? I have code that looks something l…