Love that you used a bitwise operator. Super clever.

Definitely beside math approach, best brute force there, without modulo or repeating multiplication, grants. There is not many of them there :D

This is very clever i solved in two lines of code but this is one line this is better and i appreciate it

thats wicked!

You can circumvent having to slice [::-1] twice by adjoining the names with an ampersand, and using the replace function to substitute all but the last ampersand. See my solution for details.

I always think guys who make those codes are robots... (and i always take 3 minute per lines for understanding...)

I am curious that if such short coding has benefits to future works? even reading is complicated!

insanely clever

Wow. Amazing!

Great idea reversing the string! I learnt something new today.
And I faced the same problem several times before.

Great idea!! Thanks!!

Python won't execute the for loop if names is empty and will return empty list. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

i get the code but i dont get why this returns an empty list if names is empty.

can somebody pls explain :-)

i knew i would find a divine one line solution but this is just too holy