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On 07/11/2013 00:59, Chris Angelico wrote:
> 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.
>
> """How could you open a file c:\scores.dat to write in binary?
>
> outfile = open("c:\\scores.dat", "w")
> outfile = open("c:\scores.dat", "a")
> outfile = open("c:\\scores.dat", "w")
> outfile = open("c:\\scores.dat", "wb")"""
>
> Not technically wrong, but stylistically suspect; I would recommend
> using forward slashes (which work fine on Windows) and avoiding the
> drive letter, both of which avoid making your example
> Windows-specific. (At least, I don't think there are any other
> platforms Python supports that use drive letters; OS/2 support was
> dropped a little while ago, though I believe Paul Smedley still
> maintains a port. But I digress.)
>
> """Which method will write a pickled representation of the object to
> an open file?"""
>
> Method names without object names aren't all that useful. Do you mean
> "Which method of the pickle module..."?
>
> """From which languages are Python classes derived from?"""
>
Does it really have the word "from" twice?

> Sounds like Python history trivia more than a coding challenge, but if
> that's what you want to go for, sure.
>