almost had this one dammit

I'll get to this level eventually! haha

there's no slicing in there.

But this involves slicing in line 4...
Wasn't it a kata requirement to not use slices? 😕

Depends on your definition of "doesn't work."

pythonic code

Not only this is hard to read, but the performance is not very good.

balanced_num = balancedNum

it provides an alias to the snake_case version of the camelCase function name.

Example of function name aliasing:

p = print

p("Hello, World!")

Has anybody tested the performance of this ? it feels to me like recursivity would be less efficient than a regular loop here

Starting the loop from 0 is unecessary, wasting an iteration. Just a small detail

It's shocking how slow this solution is.

Our solutions have the same time complexity but different readability

doesn't work anymore