This was written in Python 2.7.6 (way back when Codewars only supported Python 2.7.6), so try to be less rude when you're wrong. Or all the time, really. kthxbei

Also using zip adds an extra iteration over the lists.

wrong, now that python 3 use zip as a generator/iterator.

Thanks! :)

Sorry for the downtime issues. We had hoped we had gotten them cleared up from the issues we saw last week. We recently switched from Digital Ocean to AWS in an effort to consolidate our infrastructure and the hypervisor profiles are different between the two services. Apparently our EC2 instances are having their CPU "stolen" away (by as much as 99%) by other tenants on the machine which is causing the execution engine to have major issues running submitted code. We are working hard to understand the issue better so that this doesn't keep happening. Unfortunately it's hard to debug the problem and keep the site running at the same time since we haven't been able to reproduce the issue within our staging environments, but our hope is that we can fix the issues without any further downtime.

In the meantime the servers have been recreated and things should be running as expected.

We are working on the issue and should have things fixed soon. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Katas are all timing out for me. Would love an update or any advice.

You can't open the Feedback sidebar on any page beside the Dashboard – or at least not in the Forum.

server has been down I'm assuming. keep up posted on some updates

That's a kata specific issue and should be reported there. However, that being said, those test cases are only example test cases. You can still submit your code.

It's intermittent for me, but when it happens nothing seems to go through (other times its just slow)

Seems to be working for me now.

Any updates on server fix?

It's been like that for at least a few hours today.

When I submit it keeps saying submission timed out. Anyone else having this issue?

every kata is timing out today, can't even return bool