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This is simply a BAD mystery function kata, period. Even as a puzzle it is so shallow it boils down to an 8kyu kata, so there's no actual content inside.

There's this one issue though. Since dictionaries don't care about order you're probably better change the task from making a dictionary to making a string. In this case people would be forced to use acronym and do sorting.

I agree with neilm but it is suggestion so I will put this separately. I think for better votes you should change the kata: acronym as it is but words instead of list -> string with sentences. Expected result: list of sequences of consecutive words in sentence which can be such acronym and of course your variations of idea.

The easiest ways to cheat have been disabled.

I don't know what you mean by "easiest" cheat, but my first cheat worked
You should learn more about python before publishing these class of katas.

Should I work on a 'sequel' to this kata which includes more markdowns syntaxes?

Duplicate of every "replace X with Y" kata.

Description is waaaay too long (for such a simple exercise)

A trivial variation(like variant 1. Remove alphabet a from string, variant 2. Remove alphabet b from string) of following two katas:

Disemvowel Trolls
Vowel remover

Duplicate or not, I like Blind's argument that this kata will teach people about MarkDown formatting. A lot. Because comments without MarkDown suck.

I will be upvoting this kata for that reason alone ( as soon as I've solved it ), and I suggest everybody does - especially all the jaded power users. Let's make life easier on us.

Trivial arithmetics is neither novel nor interesting kata idea.

Hi,

The input string will always follow the structure below: 'a ( b + c )'

...but 'a ( b - c )' too => ?

• your tests are still built the wrong way:
  • don't put anything in the preloaded section
  • avoid those pop(0) things, build the proper data structure to make all the tests in a loop, meaning:

TESTS = [
  (messageDescribe, [(input, expected), (...,...), ...]),
  (messageDescribe, [(input, expected), (...,...), ...]),
  ...
]

• This is typically the kind of kata that doesn't pass the beta phase anymore: the task is a small subset of a larger task/problem which makes the solution more a hack than anything, this hack becoming useless as soon as you try to generalize the problem. Hence This isn't considered a good idea for a kata, these days.

cheers