...except you still have to get the name's length, which is O(n) as well.

Wow, guess I learned something new today! :D

Good thing the input isn't unknown then.

Even though it's asking to rewrite the code, this is easier to understand, uses fewer lines of code and is simpler. In my opinion, this is a perfect solution since it teaches you what is most efficient instead of just doing what the problem asks.

No, it doesn't.

Here's a profile of running this problem 10 million times with an if/if/if solution versus an if/elif/else solution:

if_if_if completed 10000000 iterations
Sum time: 5684.13ms
Mean time: 568.41ns
Standard deviation: 1684.53ns

if_elif_else completed 10000000 iterations
Sum time: 5685.18ms
Mean time: 568.52ns
Standard deviation: 1642.49ns

Even if it did, if you care about nanoseconds you shouldn't be choosing different flow control syntax in Python, you should be choosing a different language.

if elif else statement works faster than if if if

"grow a pair" programming is about making safe stable and all around good code, they obviously just gave some good feedback.

the task was not to rewrite the function but to fix it

Grow a pair haha

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Very clear!

yes, this kata only asked to fix the bug in the code. not rewrite the entire code.