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to Gigasecond in the Python Track

Published at Jul 13 2018 · 0 comments
Instructions
Test suite
Solution

Given a moment, determine the moment that would be after a gigasecond has passed.

A gigasecond is 10^9 (1,000,000,000) seconds.

Exception messages

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")

Running the tests

To run the tests, run pytest gigasecond_test.py

Alternatively, you can tell Python to run the pytest module: python -m pytest gigasecond_test.py

Common pytest options

  • -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

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For more detailed information about running tests, code style and linting, please see Running the Tests.

Source

Chapter 9 in Chris Pine's online Learn to Program tutorial. http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=09

Submitting Incomplete Solutions

It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

gigasecond_test.py

from datetime import datetime
import unittest

from gigasecond import add

# Tests adapted from `problem-specifications//canonical-data.json`


class GigasecondTest(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_date_only_specification_of_time(self):
        self.assertEqual(
            add(datetime(2011, 4, 25, 0, 0)), datetime(2043, 1, 1, 1, 46, 40)
        )

    def test_second_test_for_date_only_specification_of_time(self):
        self.assertEqual(
            add(datetime(1977, 6, 13, 0, 0)), datetime(2009, 2, 19, 1, 46, 40)
        )

    def test_third_test_for_date_only_specification_of_time(self):
        self.assertEqual(
            add(datetime(1959, 7, 19, 0, 0)), datetime(1991, 3, 27, 1, 46, 40)
        )

    def test_full_time_specified(self):
        self.assertEqual(
            add(datetime(2015, 1, 24, 22, 0)), datetime(2046, 10, 2, 23, 46, 40)
        )

    def test_full_time_with_day_roll_over(self):
        self.assertEqual(
            add(datetime(2015, 1, 24, 23, 59, 59)), datetime(2046, 10, 3, 1, 46, 39)
        )


if __name__ == "__main__":
    unittest.main()
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

"""Given datetime object birthday, calculate 10^9 seconds later."""

from datetime import datetime
from datetime import timedelta


def add(birthday):
    d = timedelta(seconds=1000000000)
    return birthday + d

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