Python Exercises

This repository contains the exercises from https://github.com/exercism/python providing small and well-defined problems complete with tests and solutions. The excercises are mostly unchanged, this repo exists only to make using them as straightforward as possible. You don't need to install anything other than Python.

Choosing an exercise

To select an exercise you can use this list where they are ordered very roughly by difficulty. Just browse through the exercises and read the descriptions until you find a problem which interests you.

Get started

• Clone the repository

  git clone git@github.com:Alexander-N/python-exercises.git
  

  Alternatively you can download the code from https://github.com/Alexander-N/python-exercises/archive/master.zip

• Let's say you select hello-world. Change into the directory of your exercise

  cd python-exercises/exercises/hello-world
  

• Edit hello_world.py to solve the exercise. Look at README.md and test.py to find out what to do.

• Run the tests with

  python3 test.py
  

• Compare your solution to the one in solution.py

• You can make a pull request to share your solution.

Tips

For a better testing experience, use pytest. If you don't want to use a virtualenv, you can install it globally

sudo pip3 install pytest

Run the tests with

python3 -m pytest test.py

Add the -x option to stop running tests on first failure.