Read this:

The street numbers must be in the same order as the streets where they belong.

Weird grading for something this easy. I've had 5kyu that were harder (eg. the prime ant )
I agree my solution may not be "advanced Python talk" but still...

Here I thought I was gonna be a 'smart' cookie by doing quick jumps to queued positions, to make it faster.
(the distance can be up to tens or hundreds of "steps" from the lowest position)

My solution passes 1 out of 5 times, depending on the inputs.

Think i'll skip the "insane" version, looking at the other solutions i feel a python noob hahaha.

Great Kata though!

" ...it also means '00000' is definitely a short (in-character) pause, and '000000' is a long (between-characters) pause."
Yet in the "Hey Jude" example I see both 5 and 6 zero's being used "in-character"...?

in all seriousness, I agree. (the ranking and the "bad joke" :) )

3kyu are usually more difficult (for me).

I'm not sure we should change ranks of old kata's. The bar may have been different back then. We all know there are dozens of older blue kata's that would get ranked yellow these days, but there also are a ton of 6-5 kyu's that could have been ranked 5-4. Should we sweep through all older kata's and recalibrate ranks against the "current" bar or should we just accept some kata's are ranked the way they are? (open question)

That's a pretty bad joke here. (There are also gonna be a lot of people who still take your joke seriously ;-))

I guess everything looks like a 5kyu if you're a "x dan" (compliment disguised as joke) ;-)

Great Kata!
@HKMT's one liner for compressing the grid makes me feel like a dunce... :)
(not just that but this one killed me , haha)

not the "python" way (that "compression" routine is embarracing , compared with HKMT's 1-liner) but it works...

prettyresult -> bad clean up, used for debugging...

(Python) Great Kata, but I got a feeling there's not enough random tests and hence I think my code isn't entirely full proof. (comments welcome!)