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A while back I wrote a simple little PHP script that searches the Steam community market for any TF2 strange weapons with strange parts on the first page of results for that weapon type. It works by retrieving the listings for each weapon using curl, runs a regex to retrieve the internal JS varia...
Introduction
hackertyper.net is a website that simulates "hacking" (as the media portrays it) by outputting complicated code from the crypto section of the Linux kernel onto the screen as you type at a rate of 3 characters per one inputted.
Challenge
Your program/function should either accept ...
Compute the Adler-32 checksum
Background
Adler-32 is a 32-bit checksum invented by Mark Adler in 1995 which is part of the widely used zlib library (also developed by Adler). Adler-32 is not as reliable as a 32-bit cyclic redundancy check, but – at least in software – it is much faster and eas...
It should work fine, don't use tuple, list or other special names as a variable name. It's probably whats causing your problem.
>>> l = [4,5,6]
>>> tuple(l)
(4, 5, 6)
Do X without Y
This isn't always bad, but it's been a particular trap for beginners, so be careful.
In the past, there were popular questions about doing a simple task but with the obvious method banned:
Produce the number 2014 without any numbers in your source code
How to write a C program ...
