FYI a more elegant solution to this problem than deleting system files would probably be to instead modify the test script to ignore any files that begin with a period . , or alternatively throw in a try-catch for UnicodeDecodeError which then co...

I am surprised that you have managed to make it to a second year unit without learning about resources such as onesearch. Here is one sample paper https onesearch.library.uwa.edu.au discovery fulldisplay?docid alma991317624002101 context L vid 61UW...

; we now have less than 1 week to prepare for the test. a practice test would be appreciated.

sounds like its not finding your correct genealogy.py , as its not even stating which tests have pass failed so we can deduce that it didn't get to the testing stage of the program in the first place. either that or perhaps your class name inside th...

how fast are everyone's solutions passing the test script? im sitting 0.6 seconds (down from 19s before ), not too sure if I can get it any faster from here. TIA

I did a-z and im passing all the tests

with returning positive infinity, thats what im also doing for now. and for what its worth, to cover all edge cases, im throwing negative infinity for when the rank is 1. I am sort of just assuming that that is what we are expected to do, but ill b...

I was thinking about this myself, but computers are so fast that for sorting sub 100 elements it makes hardly any practical difference, so I went with merge sort only. Also, different sources on the internet say different numbers of n items are the...