Thanks a lot that really helped...after some googling that is.

I recommend checking this out (that helped me) - http://effbot.org/zone/default-values.htm#what-to-do-instead

Thank you for the quick reply. I am just really surprised that the suggested solution from stackoverflow (which was endorsed by 478 people) did not work.

Anyhow, thanks a lot again! I really appreciate it.

Thank you very much. You are really a savior! Could I please ask you one additional question? Since you are clearly an expert.

print(isinstance(25/25.0, int))

or

print(isinstance((25/25.0), (int, long)))

Why do both of these return False? I found this method http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3501382/checking-whether-a-variable-is-an-integer-or-not but it simply does not seem to work for me.

I am going to use ().is_integer() as that seems to work but it is still bugging me why the method above does not work.

I agree with you that it is annoying :D

Anyhow, just put this inside your code and you will see for what numbers it is failing. You can do this for other exercises as well ;-)

print(quantity)
print(price)

Aha, I see what you mean. So far I had the experience that the test cases would repeat in the beginning of the "Run Suite". Thank you!

In Python, my code passes all test cases but when I click on "Run Suite" the code fails on the second test case.

It is exactly the same as https://www.codewars.com/kata/grasshopper-shopping-list/python and http://www.codewars.com/kata/grasshopper-make-change/discuss/javascript

As I pointed out before on "Grasshopper - Make change", I don't see the point of creating duplicate exercises. Frankly, I do not see any value added.

Also, camelCase should not be used in Python - words should be lowercase and separated by underscores. To illustrate, instead of chancesCreated, shotsOnTarget, successfulDribbles please use chances_created, shots_on_target, successful_dribbles. mixedCase is allowed only in contexts where that's already the prevailing style (e.g. threading.py), to retain backwards compatibility (last sentence taken from PEP 8: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/)

It is exactly the same as https://www.codewars.com/kata/grasshopper-shopping-list/python and http://www.codewars.com/kata/grasshopper-fantasy-points/javascript

Not sure why is the author creating multiple duplicate katas.

Would anyone be able to tell me - whether it is possible to write a code that would generate different output until it matches expected result of the exercise? In other words, brute force this exercise?

I already wrote a code that goes over all combination of 3 items in a list. However, I am just not sure how to define the expected output :-( this has really been bugging me.

FYI - I tried the code here https://www.codewars.com/kata/get-the-mean-of-an-array/train/python and it was also working fine :/

The instructions for the exercise should be clearer. It was not specified that the input may contain diacritics. At least one example with such condition should be illustrated.