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Comment by qsort

4 hours ago

Do you frequently use Python for competitive programming puzzles? I've done it a bit in the past, and everyone always used C++.

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denys_potapov  4 hours ago

Always. Probably you can't get in top 100 with python[1]. But I like dicts with tuple keys, bigints, all the list things.

[1] My best is around 1300 place in HackerCup.

  • btilly  2 hours ago

    I have to wonder how much better you'd do if they made pypy an option.

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