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On 11.03.13 04:06, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 3/10/2013 1:42 PM, mukesh tiwari wrote:
>> Hello all
>> I am trying to solve this problem[1]
>> [1] http://www.spoj.com/problems/MAIN12C/
>
> As I remember, and as it still appears, this site severely penalizes
> Python solvers by using the same time limit for all languages. Thus, a
> 'slow' python program may work correctly but the site will not let you
> know.

I'm sure the time limits are enough to solve most (if not all) of 
problems. Actually all submitted solutions on Python for this problem 
run from 0.47 to 0.61 seconds (http://www.spoj.com/ranks/MAIN12C/).