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This week's Python digest offers a fascinating blend of practical insights and mind-bending challenges. We start by exploring clever ways to work with text, then dive into the subtle art of optimization and unravel the true nature of Python dictionary ordering. To test your analytical prowess, we present a complex mission: reversing the enigmatic 'Ghost Leg' game to deduce the hidden paths that transform one list into another.

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🏁 MISSION

Draw Ghost Legs by kurosawa4434 -

Ghost leg is a well-known method used to get random results. This mechanism has the effect of changing the order in the list. This mission is almost reversed the Follow Ghost Legs. You are given a list of result as input values. You have to return the list of legs that match them.

draw_ghost_legs([3, 2, 1]) == [(1, 2), (2, 3), (1, 2)] etc.
draw_ghost_legs([3, 2, 4, 1]) == [(2, 3), (1, 2), (2, 3), (3, 4)] etc.
draw_ghost_legs([1, 5, 4, 2, 3]) == [(3, 4), (4, 5), (3, 4), (2, 3), (3, 4)] etc.

📖 ARTICLES

The fastest way to detect a vowel in a string -

If you need to find the vowels in a string there are several different approaches you could take. This article covers 11 different ways and how each performs.

O(no) You Didn't -

A deep dive into why real-world performance often defies Big-O expectations and why context and profiling matter more than theoretical complexity

Are Python Dictionaries Ordered Data Structures? -

Although dictionaries have maintained insertion order since Python 3.6, they aren’t strictly speaking ordered data structures. Read on to find out why and how the edge cases can be important depending on your use case.

👩‍💻CODE SHOT

What do you think the following code does?

from collections import Counter

def stats(string: str):
    return Counter(string.lower().replace(' ', ''))

def ?????????(first: str, second: str) -> bool:
    return stats(first) == stats(second)

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