Hi Omar,
Thanks for the suggestions!
Your point about question difficulty is well taken. We previously organized
questions into sections based on difficulty or topic, but have been
experimenting with doing away with sections entirely. We are developing a
way to intelligently deliver questions to
On 08/11/2013 02:18, Roy Smith wrote:
In article , alex23
wrote:
On 8/11/2013 11:54 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
Dead code doesn't count.
Neither do shifting goalposts.
It's not a shifting goalpost. My original statement was that:
def foo():
raise Exception
defines a function which 1) has
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Nathaniel Sokoll-Ward <
nathanielsokollw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thought this group would appreciate this:
> www.metabright.com/challenges/python
>
> MetaBright makes skill assessments to measure how talented people are at
> different skills. And recruiters use MetaB
alex23 wrote:
In [2]: import dis
In [3]: dis.dis(foo)
2 0 LOAD_GLOBAL 0 (Exception)
3 RAISE_VARARGS1
6 LOAD_CONST 0 (None)
9 RETURN_VALUE
Seeing as we're being pedantic, the function *does* return None,
On Thu, 07 Nov 2013 22:05:14 -0600, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2013-11-07 21:18, Roy Smith wrote:
>> It's not a shifting goalpost. My original statement was that:
>>
>> def foo():
>>raise Exception
>>
>> defines a function which 1) has no explicit return statement and 2)
>> does not return None.
On 2013-11-07 21:18, Roy Smith wrote:
> It's not a shifting goalpost. My original statement was that:
>
> def foo():
>raise Exception
>
> defines a function which 1) has no explicit return statement and 2)
> does not return None. I stand by that statement. There is no
> possible codepath,
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> It's not a shifting goalpost. My original statement was that:
>
> def foo():
>raise Exception
>
> defines a function which 1) has no explicit return statement and 2) does
> not return None. I stand by that statement. There is no possible
>
In article , alex23
wrote:
> On 8/11/2013 11:54 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
> > Dead code doesn't count.
>
> Neither do shifting goalposts.
It's not a shifting goalpost. My original statement was that:
def foo():
raise Exception
defines a function which 1) has no explicit return statement and 2
On 8/11/2013 11:54 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
Dead code doesn't count.
Neither do shifting goalposts.
--
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
In article , alex23
wrote:
> On 8/11/2013 11:02 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
> > Well, if you want to be truly pedantic about it (*), this defines a
> > function without an explicit return and which does not return None:
> >
> > def foo():
> > raise Exception
>
>
> In [2]: import dis
> In [3]: dis
On 8/11/2013 11:02 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
Well, if you want to be truly pedantic about it (*), this defines a
function without an explicit return and which does not return None:
def foo():
raise Exception
In [2]: import dis
In [3]: dis.dis(foo)
2 0 LOAD_GLOBAL 0 (Ex
In article ,
Alister wrote:
> your sites answer is " defines a function that does nothing"
> once you have defined the function try print (a(1,2,3))
> you will see that is does indeed return none, as do all functions without
> an explicit return.
Well, if you want to be truly pedantic about it
On Friday, November 8, 2013 3:02:10 AM UTC+8, jsk...@gmail.com wrote:
> We do not currently support cookieless or javascript-less browsing. We are
> definitely looking at relying less and less on cookies, but it's unlikely
> we'll ever be able to pull out javascript as it limits interactivity too
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:38 AM, Nathaniel Sokoll-Ward
wrote:
> Wow! Thanks for all the feedback everyone. This content is fresh so I
> appreciate everyone's comments. As opposed to responding to each post
> individually, I'll just lump everything in here...
Best way, I think :)
> I believe tha
On 2013-11-07 11:02, jski...@gmail.com wrote:
> it's unlikely we'll ever be able to pull out javascript as it
> limits interactivity too much.
It was mostly in jest as it's one of the things I test when doing
web development. That said, the quizzes are mostly just HTML forms
where you pick the an
On Thu, 07 Nov 2013 10:38:40 -0800, Nathaniel Sokoll-Ward wrote:
> Wow! Thanks for all the feedback everyone. This content is fresh so I
> appreciate everyone's comments. As opposed to responding to each post
> individually, I'll just lump everything in here...
>
>
>>
>> My answer: "Defines a fu
We do not currently support cookieless or javascript-less browsing. We are
definitely looking at relying less and less on cookies, but it's unlikely we'll
ever be able to pull out javascript as it limits interactivity too much. Its
definitely possible to do, and maybe something we can look at in
On 07/11/2013 18:38, Nathaniel Sokoll-Ward wrote:
My answer: "Defines a function which returns None", but that isn't one
of the choices.
Roy, thanks for your note. When I run this code, the function just gets defined
and nothing happens. None isn't returned. Do you recall why you found the
o
Wow! Thanks for all the feedback everyone. This content is fresh so I
appreciate everyone's comments. As opposed to responding to each post
individually, I'll just lump everything in here...
Andrew, big thanks for your comments:
> "What is the correct number of spaces for indentation in Python?
On 2013-11-06 17:31, John Nagle wrote:
> >> MetaBright makes skill assessments to measure how talented
> >> people are at different skills. And recruiters use MetaBright to
> >> find outrageously skilled job candidates.
>
> With tracking cookies blocked, you get 0 points.
And with JavaScript bl
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:55 PM, John Ladasky
wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 6, 2013 4:00:57 PM UTC-8, Nathaniel Sokoll-Ward wrote:
>> Thought this group would appreciate this:
>> www.metabright.com/challenges/python
>
> I have to concur with what several other people are saying here. Several o
On Wednesday, November 6, 2013 4:00:57 PM UTC-8, Nathaniel Sokoll-Ward wrote:
> Thought this group would appreciate this: www.metabright.com/challenges/python
I have to concur with what several other people are saying here. Several of
MetaBright's questions are ambiguously worded, or expect non-
On 11/6/2013 5:04 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Nathaniel Sokoll-Ward
> wrote:
>> Thought this group would appreciate this:
>> www.metabright.com/challenges/python
>>
>> MetaBright makes skill assessments to measure how talented people are at
>> different skills. A
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:12 PM, MRAB wrote:
>> """From which languages are Python classes derived from?"""
>>
> Does it really have the word "from" twice?
You know, I didn't even notice that. But since that was copied and
pasted, I would say that yes, it really does. That's a pretty simple
gramm
On 07/11/2013 00:59, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Nathaniel Sokoll-Ward
wrote:
Thought this group would appreciate this: www.metabright.com/challenges/python
MetaBright makes skill assessments to measure how talented people are at
different skills. And recruiters use
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Nathaniel Sokoll-Ward
wrote:
> Thought this group would appreciate this: www.metabright.com/challenges/python
>
> MetaBright makes skill assessments to measure how talented people are at
> different skills. And recruiters use MetaBright to find outrageously skille
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Nathaniel Sokoll-Ward
wrote:
> Thought this group would appreciate this: www.metabright.com/challenges/python
>
> MetaBright makes skill assessments to measure how talented people are at
> different skills. And recruiters use MetaBright to find outrageously skille
On 07/11/2013 00:28, Andrew Cooper wrote:
On 07/11/2013 00:24, Roy Smith wrote:
In article ,
Andrew Cooper wrote:
On 07/11/2013 00:00, Nathaniel Sokoll-Ward wrote:
Thought this group would appreciate this:
www.metabright.com/challenges/python
MetaBright makes skill assessments to measure
On 07/11/2013 00:24, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article ,
> Andrew Cooper wrote:
>
>> On 07/11/2013 00:00, Nathaniel Sokoll-Ward wrote:
>>> Thought this group would appreciate this:
>>> www.metabright.com/challenges/python
>>>
>>> MetaBright makes skill assessments to measure how talented people are
In article ,
Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 07/11/2013 00:00, Nathaniel Sokoll-Ward wrote:
> > Thought this group would appreciate this:
> > www.metabright.com/challenges/python
> >
> > MetaBright makes skill assessments to measure how talented people are at
> > different skills. And recruiters us
On 07/11/2013 00:00, Nathaniel Sokoll-Ward wrote:
> Thought this group would appreciate this: www.metabright.com/challenges/python
>
> MetaBright makes skill assessments to measure how talented people are at
> different skills. And recruiters use MetaBright to find outrageously skilled
> job can
31 matches
Mail list logo
