I'm such a dumb....

thks !

Bananas from Bahamas
             Bah  as
Bananas from    am

Hi

You have a test for submition that might be like this:

Test.expect(isMerge('Bananas from Bahamas', 'Bahas', 'Bananas from am'));

Here is what I've got when I'm doing this "manually" (args are separated with ><):

>Bananas from Bahamas<>Bahas<>Bananas from am<
>ananas from Bahamas<>ahas<>Bananas from am<
>nanas from Bahamas<>has<>Bananas from am<

So clearly this should be rejected if I understand instruction.

Can you tell me what I miss ?

Thks.

True that, but while elegancy is rather subjective, I am not so sure it helps efficiency-wise to enumerate and get TWO values instead of one.

It is also true that efficiency-wise I could have used and xrange, but I keep forgetting that, being used to Pyhon 3 ;)

Just a remark; instead of:
for item in range(len(order)):
element = order[item]
[...]
you can use:
for item, element in enumerate(order):
[...]

I think it's more elegant.

I do not think you solution is very elegant because you reparse your list ans for every element on order.

So your complexity is (in the worst case) something like O(n^2) (exactly it would be n*(n-1)/2).