hey that is totally reasonable and i understand that. cheers and thanks for your time. (ps. it does not translate lol)

And what is your view if I'd refactored the messy inputs as per your design, and create a kata that just focus on the problem? Would it still be an interesting 8 kyu question? Just trying to know what standards veterans are looking for in a 8 kyu question

And hey, what is your rationale behind 'a list of dicts didn't make sense, should be a list of tuples'? What is the reason that it should be a list of tuples?

great input. Thanks for the lengthy comment, I appreciate it. As a newbie I would love if you could recommend ways for me to improve my design skills, as I don't have much experience building projects but just solving problems on here and Leetcode. Recently am learning on python dictionary so I thought I could build a problem to share on some challenges I had with it like iterating it and accessing nonexistent keys, but obviously you mentioned my blindspot which is that it is setting bad examples to new coders.

I guess I'll stop creating Katas for now and work on my skills just to do you and the new katas mods a favor! Thanks again.

Do you mean the one in the description?

The fake answer is that I hope it would interest beginners in learning different ways of handling these data structures and constraints. The real answer is I'm just trying to add complexity to a rather simple problem :p

what's the new test framework look like? I got mine here https://github.com/Codewars/codewars.com/wiki/Codewars-Python-Test-Framework-V2 which seems to be the latest version

I don't understand the third bullet point @op

thanks, managed to patch it with your help.

patched

how do i create random tests?