Okay, here is another freebie :) I will put in a real one before the end of the weekend.
Basically, you are given a list from which you need to create a new list where each element is the product of all the "OTHER" elements.
I found a few interesting corner cases.
I challenge you to give it a try!
Read the challenge here:
https://git.qoto.org/Absinthe/productnot/blob/master/README.md
My attempt is checked into that repo as well.
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@Absinthe Here is my #toyprogrammingchallenge no-division solution:
```
#!/usr/bin/env python
from collections import deque
from functools import reduce
from random import randint
def get_product_and_rotate(d):
"""Gets product of all but the first items in the queue"""
prod = reduce(lambda a, b: a * b, list(d)[1:])
d.rotate(-1) # Rotates left so that the next
return prod
if __name__ == "__main__":
n_items = randint(2, 10)
input_list = [randint(0, 9) for _ in range(n_items)]
print(input_list)
product_queue = deque(input_list)
print([get_product_and_rotate(product_queue) for _ in input_list])
```
Uses `reduce` for the multiplication, and uses a `deque` (double-ended queue) to rotate the list. I've read that using a deque is actually more efficient than just taking slices out of the list.
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@zingbretsen What about this... as a one liner:
[reduce(lambda a, b: a *b, [ y for x, y in enumerate(list) if x != idx]) for idx, _ in enumerate(list)]
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@Absinthe looks right to me
A Python solution
@zingbretsen This works...
print("One Liner no division")
print([reduce(lambda a, b: a *b,
[ y for x, y in enumerate(random_list) if x != idx])
for idx, _ in enumerate(random_list)])
It's a one liner, except I am sticking to 80 columns so I split it a few times.. still calling it a one liner :)
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@zingbretsen am pretty sure there is no technical reason not to use division, just to make the problem more complicated. I am getting ready to put up a new one. But feel free to keep playing with this one. I got a new one today, but it seems a little "specific" because they give a python code starting point, and want you to serialize and deserialize a binary tree. I will likely not put that one up as a freebie. Especially since I want to get the new real on up.