trackler 2.2.1.53 → 2.2.1.54

data/tracks/python/exercises/etl/README.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 We are going to do the `Transform` step of an Extract-Transform-Load.
 
 ### ETL
+
 Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) is a fancy way of saying, "We have some crufty, legacy data over in this system, and now we need it in this shiny new system over here, so
 we're going to migrate this."
 
@@ -11,6 +12,7 @@ once." That's then typically followed by much forehead slapping and
 moaning about how stupid we could possibly be.)
 
 ### The goal
+
 We're going to extract some scrabble scores from a legacy system.
 
 The old system stored a list of letters per score:
@@ -44,13 +46,12 @@ variety of languages, each with its own unique scoring table. For
 example, an "E" is scored at 2 in the Māori-language version of the
 game while being scored at 4 in the Hawaiian-language version.
 
-### Submitting Exercises
+## Submitting Exercises
 
 Note that, when trying to submit an exercise, make sure the solution is in the `exercism/python/<exerciseName>` directory.
 
 For example, if you're submitting `bob.py` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/python/bob/bob.py`.
 
-
 For more detailed information about running tests, code style and linting,
 please see the [help page](http://exercism.io/languages/python).
 

data/tracks/python/exercises/flatten-array/README.md

@@ -3,21 +3,19 @@
 Take a nested list and return a single flattened list with all values except nil/null.
 
 The challenge is to write a function that accepts an arbitrarily-deep nested list-like structure and returns a flattened structure without any nil/null values.
- 
+
 For Example
 
 input: [1,[2,3,null,4],[null],5]
 
 output: [1,2,3,4,5]
 
-
-### Submitting Exercises
+## Submitting Exercises
 
 Note that, when trying to submit an exercise, make sure the solution is in the `exercism/python/<exerciseName>` directory.
 
 For example, if you're submitting `bob.py` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/python/bob/bob.py`.
 
-
 For more detailed information about running tests, code style and linting,
 please see the [help page](http://exercism.io/languages/python).
 

data/tracks/python/exercises/food-chain/README.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Food chain
+# Food Chain
 
 Generate the lyrics of the song 'I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly'.
 
@@ -63,19 +63,18 @@ I know an old lady who swallowed a horse.
 She's dead, of course!
 ```
 
-### Submitting Exercises
+## Submitting Exercises
 
 Note that, when trying to submit an exercise, make sure the solution is in the `exercism/python/<exerciseName>` directory.
 
 For example, if you're submitting `bob.py` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/python/bob/bob.py`.
 
-
 For more detailed information about running tests, code style and linting,
 please see the [help page](http://exercism.io/languages/python).
 
 ## Source
 
-Inspired by the Extreme Startup game [https://github.com/rchatley/extreme_startup](https://github.com/rchatley/extreme_startup)
+Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Was_an_Old_Lady_Who_Swallowed_a_Fly](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Was_an_Old_Lady_Who_Swallowed_a_Fly)
 
 ## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
 It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/python/exercises/forth/README.md

@@ -25,19 +25,15 @@ enough.)
 
 Words are case-insensitive.
 
-## Hints
-- To parse the text, you could try to use the [Sprache](https://github.com/sprache/Sprache/blob/develop/README.md) library. You can also find a good tutorial [here](https://www.thomaslevesque.com/2017/02/23/easy-text-parsing-in-c-with-sprache/).
-
-
-### Submitting Exercises
+## Submitting Exercises
 
 Note that, when trying to submit an exercise, make sure the solution is in the `exercism/python/<exerciseName>` directory.
 
 For example, if you're submitting `bob.py` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/python/bob/bob.py`.
 
-
 For more detailed information about running tests, code style and linting,
 please see the [help page](http://exercism.io/languages/python).
 
+
 ## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
 It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/python/exercises/gigasecond/README.md

@@ -4,13 +4,12 @@ Calculate the moment when someone has lived for 10^9 seconds.
 
 A gigasecond is 10^9 (1,000,000,000) seconds.
 
-### Submitting Exercises
+## Submitting Exercises
 
 Note that, when trying to submit an exercise, make sure the solution is in the `exercism/python/<exerciseName>` directory.
 
 For example, if you're submitting `bob.py` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/python/bob/bob.py`.
 
-
 For more detailed information about running tests, code style and linting,
 please see the [help page](http://exercism.io/languages/python).
 

data/tracks/python/exercises/grade-school/README.md

@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ In the end, you should be able to:
 Note that all our students only have one name.  (It's a small town, what
 do you want?)
 
-
 ## For bonus points
 
 Did you get the tests passing and the code clean? If you want to, these
@@ -35,13 +34,12 @@ are some additional things you could try:
 Then please share your thoughts in a comment on the submission. Did this
 experiment make the code better? Worse? Did you learn anything from it?
 
-### Submitting Exercises
+## Submitting Exercises
 
 Note that, when trying to submit an exercise, make sure the solution is in the `exercism/python/<exerciseName>` directory.
 
 For example, if you're submitting `bob.py` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/python/bob/bob.py`.
 
-
 For more detailed information about running tests, code style and linting,
 please see the [help page](http://exercism.io/languages/python).
 

data/tracks/python/exercises/grains/README.md

@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ Write code that shows:
 - how many grains were on each square, and
 - the total number of grains
 
-
 ## For bonus points
 
 Did you get the tests passing and the code clean? If you want to, these
@@ -27,13 +26,12 @@ are some additional things you could try:
 Then please share your thoughts in a comment on the submission. Did this
 experiment make the code better? Worse? Did you learn anything from it?
 
-### Submitting Exercises
+## Submitting Exercises
 
 Note that, when trying to submit an exercise, make sure the solution is in the `exercism/python/<exerciseName>` directory.
 
 For example, if you're submitting `bob.py` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/python/bob/bob.py`.
 
-
 For more detailed information about running tests, code style and linting,
 please see the [help page](http://exercism.io/languages/python).
 

data/tracks/python/exercises/grep/README.md

@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@
 Search a file for lines matching a regular expression pattern. Return the line
 number and contents of each matching line.
 
-The Unix [`grep`](http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/grep.html) command can be used to search for lines in one or more files 
+The Unix [`grep`](http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/grep.html) command can be used to search for lines in one or more files
 that match a user-provided search query (known as the *pattern*).
 
 The `grep` command takes three arguments:
 
-1. The pattern used to match lines in a file. 
+1. The pattern used to match lines in a file.
 2. Zero or more flags to customize the matching behavior.
-3. One or more files in which to search for matching lines. 
+3. One or more files in which to search for matching lines.
 
 Your task is to implement the `grep` function, which should read the contents
 of the specified files, find the lines that match the specified pattern
@@ -20,18 +20,18 @@ in the first file being output first.
 
 As an example, suppose there is a file named "input.txt" with the following contents:
 
-<pre>
+```text
 hello
 world
 hello again
-</pre>
+```
 
 If we were to call `grep "hello" input.txt`, the returned string should be:
 
-<pre>
+```text
 hello
 hello again
-</pre>
+```
 
 ### Flags
 
@@ -46,31 +46,30 @@ As said earlier, the `grep` command should also support the following flags:
 If we run `grep -n "hello" input.txt`, the `-n` flag will require the matching
 lines to be prefixed with its line number:
 
-<pre>
+```text
 1:hello
 3:hello again
-</pre>
+```
 
-And if we run `grep -i "HELLO" input.txt`, we'll do a case-insensitive match, 
+And if we run `grep -i "HELLO" input.txt`, we'll do a case-insensitive match,
 and the output will be:
 
-<pre>
+```text
 hello
 hello again
-</pre>
+```
 
 The `grep` command should support multiple flags at once.
 
 For example, running `grep -l -v "hello" file1.txt file2.txt` should
 print the names of files that do not contain the string "hello".
 
-### Submitting Exercises
+## Submitting Exercises
 
 Note that, when trying to submit an exercise, make sure the solution is in the `exercism/python/<exerciseName>` directory.
 
 For example, if you're submitting `bob.py` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/python/bob/bob.py`.
 
-
 For more detailed information about running tests, code style and linting,
 please see the [help page](http://exercism.io/languages/python).
 

data/tracks/python/exercises/hamming/README.md

@@ -35,13 +35,12 @@ The Hamming distance is only defined for sequences of equal length. This means
 that based on the definition, each language could deal with getting sequences
 of equal length differently.
 
-### Submitting Exercises
+## Submitting Exercises
 
 Note that, when trying to submit an exercise, make sure the solution is in the `exercism/python/<exerciseName>` directory.
 
 For example, if you're submitting `bob.py` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/python/bob/bob.py`.
 
-
 For more detailed information about running tests, code style and linting,
 please see the [help page](http://exercism.io/languages/python).
 

data/tracks/python/exercises/hamming/hamming_test.py

@@ -3,10 +3,13 @@ import unittest
 import hamming
 
 
-# test cases adapted from `x-common//canonical-data.json` @ version: 1.0.0
+# Tests adapted from `problem-specifications//canonical-data.json` @ v2.0.1
 
 class HammingTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
+    def test_empty_strands(self):
+        self.assertEqual(hamming.distance("", ""), 0)
+
     def test_identical_strands(self):
         self.assertEqual(hamming.distance("A", "A"), 0)
 
@@ -29,10 +32,10 @@ class HammingTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(hamming.distance("ACCAGGG", "ACTATGG"), 2)
 
     def test_non_unique_character_in_first_strand(self):
-        self.assertEqual(hamming.distance("AGA", "AGG"), 1)
+        self.assertEqual(hamming.distance("AAG", "AAA"), 1)
 
     def test_non_unique_character_in_second_strand(self):
-        self.assertEqual(hamming.distance("AGG", "AGA"), 1)
+        self.assertEqual(hamming.distance("AAA", "AAG"), 1)
 
     def test_same_nucleotides_in_different_positions(self):
         self.assertEqual(hamming.distance("TAG", "GAT"), 2)
@@ -43,9 +46,6 @@ class HammingTest(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_large_distance_in_off_by_one_strand(self):
         self.assertEqual(hamming.distance("GGACGGATTCTG", "AGGACGGATTCT"), 9)
 
-    def test_empty_strands(self):
-        self.assertEqual(hamming.distance("", ""), 0)
-
     def test_disallow_first_strand_longer(self):
         with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
             hamming.distance("AATG", "AAA")

data/tracks/python/exercises/hello-world/README.md

@@ -14,13 +14,12 @@ The objectives are simple:
 
 If everything goes well, you will be ready to fetch your first real exercise.
 
-### Submitting Exercises
+## Submitting Exercises
 
 Note that, when trying to submit an exercise, make sure the solution is in the `exercism/python/<exerciseName>` directory.
 
 For example, if you're submitting `bob.py` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/python/bob/bob.py`.
 
-
 For more detailed information about running tests, code style and linting,
 please see the [help page](http://exercism.io/languages/python).
 

data/tracks/python/exercises/hexadecimal/README.md

@@ -7,13 +7,12 @@ teal: 008080, navy: 000080).
 
 The program should handle invalid hexadecimal strings.
 
-### Submitting Exercises
+## Submitting Exercises
 
 Note that, when trying to submit an exercise, make sure the solution is in the `exercism/python/<exerciseName>` directory.
 
 For example, if you're submitting `bob.py` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/python/bob/bob.py`.
 
-
 For more detailed information about running tests, code style and linting,
 please see the [help page](http://exercism.io/languages/python).
 

data/tracks/python/exercises/hexadecimal/example.py

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 from functools import reduce
 
 
-def hexa(s):
-    s = s.lower()
-    if set(s) - set('0123456789abcdef'):
+def hexa(hex_str):
+    hex_str = hex_str.lower()
+    if set(hex_str) - set('0123456789abcdef'):
         raise ValueError('Invalid hexadecimal string')
-    l = [ord(c) - ord('a') + 10 if c in 'abcdef' else ord(c) - ord('0')
-         for c in s]
-    return reduce(lambda x, y: x * 16 + y, l, 0)
+    digits = [ord(c) - ord('a') + 10 if c in 'abcdef' else ord(c) - ord('0')
+              for c in hex_str]
+    return reduce(lambda x, y: x * 16 + y, digits, 0)

data/tracks/python/exercises/house/README.md

@@ -11,10 +11,9 @@ Output the nursery rhyme 'This is the House that Jack Built'.
 
 - [papyr.com](http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/grammar/ph_noun.htm)
 
-
 The nursery rhyme reads as follows:
 
-```plain
+```text
 This is the house that Jack built.
 
 This is the malt
@@ -106,13 +105,12 @@ that ate the malt
 that lay in the house that Jack built.
 ```
 
-### Submitting Exercises
+## Submitting Exercises
 
 Note that, when trying to submit an exercise, make sure the solution is in the `exercism/python/<exerciseName>` directory.
 
 For example, if you're submitting `bob.py` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/python/bob/bob.py`.
 
-
 For more detailed information about running tests, code style and linting,
 please see the [help page](http://exercism.io/languages/python).
 

data/tracks/python/exercises/isogram/README.md

@@ -2,23 +2,23 @@
 
 Determine if a word or phrase is an isogram.
 
-An isogram (also known as a "nonpattern word") is a word or phrase without a repeating letter.
+An isogram (also known as a "nonpattern word") is a word or phrase without a repeating letter, however spaces and hyphens are allowed to appear multiple times.
 
 Examples of isograms:
 
 - lumberjacks
 - background
 - downstream
+- six-year-old
 
 The word *isograms*, however, is not an isogram, because the s repeats.
 
-### Submitting Exercises
+## Submitting Exercises
 
 Note that, when trying to submit an exercise, make sure the solution is in the `exercism/python/<exerciseName>` directory.
 
 For example, if you're submitting `bob.py` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/python/bob/bob.py`.
 
-
 For more detailed information about running tests, code style and linting,
 please see the [help page](http://exercism.io/languages/python).
 

data/tracks/python/exercises/kindergarten-garden/README.md

@@ -3,19 +3,19 @@
 Given a diagram, determine which plants each child in the kindergarten class is
 responsible for.
 
-The kindergarten class is learning about growing plants. The teachers
+The kindergarten class is learning about growing plants. The teacher
 thought it would be a good idea to give them actual seeds, plant them in
 actual dirt, and grow actual plants.
 
 They've chosen to grow grass, clover, radishes, and violets.
 
-To this end, they've put little styrofoam cups along the window sills,
-and planted one type of plant in each cup, choosing randomly from the
-available types of seeds.
+To this end, the children have put little cups along the window sills, and 
+planted one type of plant in each cup, choosing randomly from the available 
+types of seeds.
 
-```plain
+```text
 [window][window][window]
-........................ # each dot represents a styrofoam cup
+........................ # each dot represents a cup
 ........................
 ```
 
@@ -25,27 +25,27 @@ There are 12 children in the class:
 - Eve, Fred, Ginny, Harriet,
 - Ileana, Joseph, Kincaid, and Larry.
 
-Each child gets 4 cups, two on each row. The children are assigned to
-cups in alphabetical order.
+Each child gets 4 cups, two on each row. Their teacher assigns cups to 
+the children alphabetically by their names.
 
 The following diagram represents Alice's plants:
 
-```plain
+```text
 [window][window][window]
 VR......................
 RG......................
 ```
 
-So in the row nearest the window, she has a violet and a radish; in the
-row behind that, she has a radish and some grass.
+In the first row, nearest the windows, she has a violet and a radish.  In the
+second row she has a radish and some grass.
 
 Your program will be given the plants from left-to-right starting with
 the row nearest the windows. From this, it should be able to determine
-which plants belong to which students.
+which plants belong to each student.
 
 For example, if it's told that the garden looks like so:
 
-```plain
+```text
 [window][window][window]
 VRCGVVRVCGGCCGVRGCVCGCGV
 VRCCCGCRRGVCGCRVVCVGCGCV
@@ -59,13 +59,12 @@ While asking for Bob's plants would yield:
 
 - Clover, grass, clover, clover
 
-### Submitting Exercises
+## Submitting Exercises
 
 Note that, when trying to submit an exercise, make sure the solution is in the `exercism/python/<exerciseName>` directory.
 
 For example, if you're submitting `bob.py` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/python/bob/bob.py`.
 
-
 For more detailed information about running tests, code style and linting,
 please see the [help page](http://exercism.io/languages/python).