Python Interview Questions

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 11:34:38 EDT 2012


On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
> The lack of an ORDER BY is the least of the problems with that SQL.
> He's also using LIMIT without OFFSET, so the only thing that the
> 'item' argument changes is how many rows are returned (all but one of
> which are ignored), not which one is actually fetched.

No, he's using the two-arg form of LIMIT.

> It's a bit sad that these are touted as answers to interview
> questions.  I wouldn't hire anybody who gave answers like these.

The code does not work as posted; there are args missing from the
INSERT example, for, uhh, example. It makes it hard to evaluate the
quality of the code, in some places. I'm not sure what these posts are
supposed to be, but I hope they're not being held up as model answers
to interview questions. For a start, I can't find any sort of clear
questions.

Or is the code itself the question and "How would you improve this"?

ChrisA



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