Given a diagram, determine which plants each child in the kindergarten class is responsible for.
The kindergarten class is learning about growing plants. The teacher thought it would be a good idea to give them actual seeds, plant them in actual dirt, and grow actual plants.
They've chosen to grow grass, clover, radishes, and violets.
To this end, the children have put little cups along the window sills, and planted one type of plant in each cup, choosing randomly from the available types of seeds.
[window][window][window]
........................ # each dot represents a cup
........................
There are 12 children in the class:
- Alice, Bob, Charlie, David,
- Eve, Fred, Ginny, Harriet,
- Ileana, Joseph, Kincaid, and Larry.
Each child gets 4 cups, two on each row. Their teacher assigns cups to the children alphabetically by their names.
The following diagram represents Alice's plants:
[window][window][window]
VR......................
RG......................
In the first row, nearest the windows, she has a violet and a radish. In the second row she has a radish and some grass.
Your program will be given the plants from left-to-right starting with the row nearest the windows. From this, it should be able to determine which plants belong to each student.
For example, if it's told that the garden looks like so:
[window][window][window]
VRCGVVRVCGGCCGVRGCVCGCGV
VRCCCGCRRGVCGCRVVCVGCGCV
Then if asked for Alice's plants, it should provide:
- Violets, radishes, violets, radishes
While asking for Bob's plants would yield:
- Clover, grass, clover, clover
Sometimes it is necessary to raise an exception. When you do this, you should include a meaningful error message to indicate what the source of the error is. This makes your code more readable and helps significantly with debugging. Not every exercise will require you to raise an exception, but for those that do, the tests will only pass if you include a message.
To raise a message with an exception, just write it as an argument to the exception type. For example, instead of
raise Exception, you should write:
raise Exception("Meaningful message indicating the source of the error")To run the tests, run the appropriate command below (why they are different):
- Python 2.7:
py.test kindergarten_garden_test.py - Python 3.4+:
pytest kindergarten_garden_test.py
Alternatively, you can tell Python to run the pytest module (allowing the same command to be used regardless of Python version):
python -m pytest kindergarten_garden_test.py
-v: enable verbose output-x: stop running tests on first failure--ff: run failures from previous test before running other test cases
For other options, see python -m pytest -h
Note that, when trying to submit an exercise, make sure the solution is in the $EXERCISM_WORKSPACE/python/kindergarten-garden directory.
You can find your Exercism workspace by running exercism debug and looking for the line that starts with Workspace.
For more detailed information about running tests, code style and linting, please see Running the Tests.
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