lmao n1

That's a generous way to put having the eval do the text parsing for them. This solution only works for expressions that the python language can parse and evaluate for you, and contains no concepts that can help you when the problem deviates from the python language into more complex text parsing tasks. "5 lines" is kind of a meaningless boast

probably wasn't. but still congrats to them for writing this in 5 lines when it took most others tens of lines.

this works, and yet i can't help but feel like this wasn't what they wanted us to do