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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.