@zingbretsen personally, I don't care. The "freebies" are ones I have found that were given as job interview exercises (so far).
Personally, I am working on buffing up my personal python skills, so I am trying to import as little as possible. So far I have needed only the random import for setting up data.
But you need to decide what you want to get out of these challenges. If importing libraries works for you I don't see anything much wrong with it. Unless the challenge is about the functionality that you want to import. For example. if the challenge was to write a bubblesort, obviously importing someone else's bubblesort library would be pretty much cheating.
@zingbretsen personally, I don't care. The "freebies" are ones I have found that were given as job interview exercises (so far).
Personally, I am working on buffing up my personal python skills, so I am trying to import as little as possible. So far I have needed only the random import for setting up data.
But you need to decide what you want to get out of these challenges. If importing libraries works for you I don't see anything much wrong with it. Unless the challenge is about the functionality that you want to import. For example. if the challenge was to write a bubblesort, obviously importing someone else's bubblesort library would be pretty much cheating.