@zebulan Thanks for taking the time to contribute. Totally agree with all your points. This Kata has indeed become a whimsical foray of sorts. I enjoyed the back and forth of it, and if valid solutions are not incorrectly rejected then no harm done :)

Thanks @matt c for the idea, btw :)

@zebulan

nuclear launch detected. +10 rads. aka I got it using matt c's approach, but it's heavy-handed (don't allow .sort in the solution) and starts limiting otherwise potentially valid implementations. will have to compensate in the docs. this Kata will be Fallout-themed before long.

the list display case is a toughy to solve otherwise, i think. from what I read online in 27 seconds of looking, list display magic happens at compile-time, so i'd have to find a way to rewrite, recompile, and reload builtins... hmm...

@zebulan

check.

@zebulan
imp.reload is no more

touché! no more __import__('__builtin__') and the like

Good idea! Added that test case.

@zebulan, ditto! And, I see your reload() and raise you.

good catch. try now.

I switched to patching builtins for list.sort and sorted, which catches cases like from builtins import sorted

@zebulan thx for calling that out. fixed.

Done. iloveawesomerobots is no more.

ok so list.sort will now raise. what else you got?

hah! challenge accepted.