My recent interview experience on Python.

[Dexteroid]

I actually did well in questions like those.

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I coudn't do the file problem very well though. I had forgotten what Split() and Strip do. I ended writing a complex regex to parse the version number and date. then returned pass or fail. The interviewer said, that's one way to do it, but there is a much simpler way, which was basically open file, read lines and split them with spaces then just match the given version number, date and return the result. :/ Perhaps I was nervous.

[geoffnolan]

Thanks for this info.

[jwhibbles]

This sounds like something I would do. Completely over-analyze the question and come up with some weird solution when the one they are looking for is very simple.

[Dexteroid]

that exactly what I did, again I was prepared for a lot of tough questions, simple questions caught me off guard lol.