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Skeleton files should be included in all problems to make it easier

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I’m on the Python section, and I’ve found that only a few challenges include a skeleton file. This is helpful, since you can then start coding without the delay of creating your own file. Example: the Bob challenge comes with bob.py:

#
# Skeleton file for the Python "Bob" exercise.
#


def hey(what):

    return

It’d be great if a skeleton file like this was included in all of the challenges, to make things just a little bit easier for everyone.

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  • State:closed
  • Created 8 years ago
  • Comments:21 (16 by maintainers)

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lbaincommented, Jul 16, 2016

For what it’s worth, I learned about how python file/function names can be imported from Exercism because the default file and functions weren’t supplied. Hello World simply uses import hello_world and then explicitly calls hello_world.hello() from there. But the next exercise (leap year) uses from year import is_leap_year and it took me a bit of investigating to work out how it all fits together. Sure, it’s probably less valuable after the first two or three, but needing to create new files did teach me something at first.

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iHiDcommented, Apr 2, 2019

With reference to this discussion, you may want to consider https://github.com/exercism/exercism/issues/4789

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