Short snippets of Python code with some tricky questions! Knowledge of the dis
module might be very helpful.
Problems are split into:
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fundamental - great place to start if you haven't got much experience of working with Python and are still building a mental map how it works. They shouldn't be too taxing but will address important aspects of the language.
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working - they assume a reasonable familiarity with Python and are actually something you might encounter in your everyday code.
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esoteric - you might have a lifetime experience of Python coding and still scratch your head! While fun they do constitute corner cases rarely encountered.
You will need a jupyter notebook installed and a Python 3. If you don't know what you are doing follow the steps below:
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Open your terminal or command line or windows and type
pip --version
hopefully it should tell you a current version of pip followed by the path to your default Python installation and its version (If it is 3.x you are good to go) -
pip install virtualenv
this will install virtualenv a tool to create isolated Python environments. -
virtualenv notebook
will create a new foldernotebook
which contains Python executable and a copy ofpip
library. -
activate the new virtualenv on Unix type
source notebook\activate
on Windowsnotebook\scripts\activate.bat
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pip install jupyter
this will install jupyter notebook and all of its dependencies in your new virtualenv. -
change directory to folder with this code samples and run
jupyter notebook