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mmhm, perhaps :)

Could be another kata...?

I also think you enjoy generating these gravestones ;)

Yeah. To confuse the devil.

disallowing recursive implementations because the function you require contains the word sort

this is easy enough to work around of course. but it's very, very user-unfriendly to enforce the restrictions this way.

there should also have been a separate test block enforcing the restrictions with normal test failures, instead of the fugly exceptions that are being raised in the course of functionality testing.

ETA: sort_array = sorted, which is a valid solution apart from the restrictions, raises the following exception:

TypeError: don't know how to disassemble builtin_function_or_method objects

that's apparently a test error, not a code error. that's just one ( but very bad ) way in which the restrictions enforcement absolutely s*cks.

unrelated, but I'll mention it here because the kata is retired anyway: there is absolutely no reason to use a fscking BubbleSort as the reference solution. you could just have used the native sort - it's not forbidden from testing!

but kata depending on forbidding native methods are almost always a bad idea anyway ( which you had been told ).

modules forbidder.

• wouldn't be enough, especially in a case like this
• the kata is already retired

done

Already added by somebody.

I personally had to look it up.

you are training on a long-outdated version of the sample tests.

This should have been an Issue. The kata is not solvable without these specifications.

I agree with your suggestion. I've now changed the output type, updated the description, and notified the three authors whose solutions were invalidated.

Technically, the kata is now ready to be approved, but perhaps we should wait for a few more solutions and rank votes. Average assessed rank is 4kyu, but one could argue that the handling of root multiplicities pushes this closer to 3kyu territory.

Just my opinion, but given such low solve count (and the fact it's still in Beta) I'd suggest to apply this change, and leave a comment under each solution to notify and encourage them to re-submit.