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 the program runs and
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 files from ever having names that end in *.txt or *.text. The thinking is that
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 the subtree at node 1.” The result of the
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 like this: But now I’m wondering if there’s a situation where nesting would be better. Something like: