@lmh00 didn't saw i included () oopsie, i removed it from the explaination

I can add any amount of bacteria each morning... so the answer is always one day??

@Sigmanificient all of the answers include all of the characters you said weren't allowed though.

EDIT: maybe not all of the characters, but definitely ()

I don't think anyone actually followed the rules.

You need to assign the alphabet abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz to the ALPHABET variable.
The catch is that you need to not use any symbol outside of the allowed character set.

Solution using characters such as ",:[]{}+" would not be allowed.
You need to find a creative way to manipulate the python langage.

There is multiple ways to do it, but having a good knowledge of the language would help a lot

no idea what the task is here

wtf do they want me to do here , you have tasks and a "your_code[::2]-fun instruction" that doesnt make any sense and isnt explained at all

search for ternary_operators, lambda and keep in mind you can have function arguments that are "optional"

smoart