3 years old issue, without details...

It's original enough so I wouldn't call it stupid, I'll give it that. That being said, I'd also welcome a way to downvote kata, or better yet a tag that'd make it damn clear that this is an obscure retroengineering bs mostly done for fun. The fact that it's just a one-trick-pony without rigorous tests becomes apparent once you see some solutions ("-censored- = -censored2-" oneliner). Didn't waste more than 2 minutes on this before forfeiting.

Which Python version do you use on your PC? Keep in mind that Codewars uses Python 2.7.

No it's not an inside joke, but it is a joke. If you solve the kata you'll see what I mean.

I'm able to finish the two test cases in under 0.15s on my laptop but I'm getting timed out here. I wrote the code in Python, and I've tried executing it multiple times hoping for it to work, but no luck so far. Any suggestions?

Is this some sort of a lame inside joke? This is extremely stupid, I wish we had an option to report/downvote kata.

I'm getting an error that says 10 should equal 5 when it should actually be 10.