Duplicate issue.

-> "I don't think there's a situation when 6.e+2 would count as a number..."

In python (at least) : 6.e+2 is the float 600.0, so this notation has to be considered as a number, actually.

Thank you for your remark! I've rectified this mistake.

Over a week since submission, and this is still happening.

Same here, timeouts on skin-a-cat kata right now. Code works when runned in local.

This seems to be happening again, getting nothing but timeouts
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Does not work to me: could you recheck it?

Either there is a glitch in the system or someone is trying to DoS the site, because right now the load we are getting doesn't make a lot of sense. We are invistigating and should have everything fixed ASAP.

I am getting that too. With simple or not simple programs. I even tried translating a kata into python, that did not work either. The error is something like:

Submission timed out. Please try again.

I'm getting time outs for all test runs and submissions for all the katas I've tried.

I was coming with the same question. I have one kata that has been timing out since last night when I try to Submit, so it might be a test case. However, I had one just now that is timing out when trying to run my tests.

I also wonder if it was worth mapping, as merely using list() would do the trick in the same way.

Added in stricter test cases that remove the exploitation of simply parsing through each char in both the product and the combined multiplicands. Thanks for your feedback!

Apologies. Please try again, some of the initial test cases have been fixed.
Also, now the input string may also contain uppercase alphabets.