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On Sunday, March 31, 2013 5:35:38 PM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 8:21 AM, jojo  wrote:
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> > Thanks for your replies. Just to be clear this is for a interview and they would like me to figure out what the code does and come back with some test cases
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> That explains the utter lack of comments, then. In well-maintained
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> code, you would simply read through the comments to get an idea of
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> what it does.
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> A couple of key things to look up: glob.glob and os.popen. When you
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> know what they do, you should be able to get a broad understanding of
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> the whole program.
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> ChrisA

OK perfect Chris. Thanks for your reply.

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Help with python code! jojo <gerrymcgovern@gmail.com> - 2013-03-31 13:10 -0700
  Re: Help with python code! Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-01 07:39 +1100
    Re: Help with python code! jojo <gerrymcgovern@gmail.com> - 2013-03-31 14:06 -0700
      Re: Help with python code! Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-03-31 17:13 -0400
        Re: Help with python code! jojo <gerrymcgovern@gmail.com> - 2013-03-31 14:21 -0700
          Re: Help with python code! Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-03-31 17:27 -0400
            Re: Help with python code! gerrymcgovern@gmail.com - 2013-03-31 14:32 -0700
              Re: Help with python code! Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2013-04-01 17:54 +0000
            Re: Help with python code! rurpy@yahoo.com - 2013-03-31 14:46 -0700
          Re: Help with python code! Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-01 08:35 +1100
            Re: Help with python code! gerrymcgovern@gmail.com - 2013-03-31 14:41 -0700
            Re: Help with python code! gerrymcgovern@gmail.com - 2013-03-31 14:41 -0700
          Re: Help with python code! Jason Friedman <jsf80238@gmail.com> - 2013-04-02 21:59 -0600
      Re: Help with python code! Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-01 08:21 +1100
        Re: Help with python code! gerrymcgovern@gmail.com - 2013-03-31 14:24 -0700
        Re: Help with python code! gerrymcgovern@gmail.com - 2013-03-31 14:24 -0700
      Re: Help with python code! Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-03-31 23:02 +0100
      Re: Help with python code! Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-01 09:04 +1100
    Re: Help with python code! jojo <gerrymcgovern@gmail.com> - 2013-03-31 14:06 -0700
  Re: Help with python code! Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-03-31 17:08 -0400

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