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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 12:04:04 +1100
Subject: Re: Show off your Python chops and compete with others
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On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Nathaniel Sokoll-Ward
<nathanielsokollward@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thought this group would appreciate this: www.metabright.com/challenges/python
>
> MetaBright makes skill assessments to measure how talented people are at different skills. And recruiters use MetaBright to find outrageously skilled job candidates.
>
> Python is a new area of expertise for us. We make "Challenges" for a bunch of languages and we're excited to finally have Python released. Give it a shot -- I'd love to hear what you think.

By the way, here's a fairly bad solution to your final question:

array666=lambda x:b"\6\6\6" in bytes(x)

Works for the given test-cases! Doesn't work with arrays at all,
despite the description.

ChrisA