he was showing off that he can do inline if statement 😂

i never would have thought of this. god mine is so convoluted

why inside the loop cnt = -1 but outside the loop cnt = 0????

return cnt == 0

There's no point in returning True if the condition evaluates to True or returning False otherwise if you can simply return the condition itself.

if cnt < 0: return False
this line is very ingenious

Because this kata takes only account of parentheses :

Do not treat other forms of brackets as parentheses (e.g. [], {}, <>).

Even when coming up with a solution that applies the same logic, it is amazing how one can overcomplicate code! This one is a nice, simple solution. Very intuitive.

yes. it's easy to misread though because at a glance, you automatically read as elif statements, rather than a series of if statements. So yeah, it works, but I can see why so many people think it shouldn't.

Because your code doesn't track the order of opening and closing parentheses.

I was so close to this solution, but i couldn't make it work, so I found a much more complicated solution, and spent waaaay too much time on this

You are preaching awful practices. If someone finds harder to read an if... elif statement the he just should do something else than programming.

I would sat that using multiple if statements is a slightly better practice over if ... elif ... elif ... whenever the condition for all of the ifs is both consistent and clearly exclusionary. In this case, both of those are met since it is an inate logical idea in programming that if a variable equals a character, then it cannot also equal a different character.

Using only if statements makes the code sligtly easier to read, especially for those who use any of the braced langagues (Java, C#, JavaScript, etc) where you have to use if (condition) {...} else if (condition) {...} else if (condition) {...} else {...} instead of elif.

But I 100% agree that using a ternary instead of just returning an equality expression is not a best practice.

This is the first kata I ever solved in codewars, happy to see how I improved with python in ~7 years.

Some when going forward you start going backguards. Here my new solution xD

https://www.codewars.com/kata/reviews/557730efe9be66fc1b00011b/groups/62d0c43ccd97700001765d82