Project Euler and other coding contests often have a maximum time to run or people boast of how fast their particular solution runs. With Python, sometimes the approaches are somewhat kludgey - i.e., adding timing code to __main__.
What …
Thanks to some help from people here, I was able to get my code for Tasmanian camels puzzle working. However, it is horribly slow (I think. I'm not sure because this is my first program in Python). The example run …
What is the fastest way to know if a value exists in a list (a list with millions of values in it) and what its index is?
I know that all values in the list are unique as in this …