Imagine that you've been working on this program on a team of developers. You've done all the right things up until now, including writing doctests and unittests.
Unfortunately, a previous teammate not only committed code that made the benchmarking tests fail, but they force-pushed to master after rewriting history, so you can't simply go back in the git history to fix things. Especially since, in the process of ruining the timings, the developer did manage to implement features that weren't there before.
Your task is to modify anagrams.py such that the tests pass again. If the problem isn't obvious to you by visually examining the anagrams.py
module, consider using the profiling techniques that you learned about in the lesson to pin down the problem. Using a debugger may also help you to get a handle on exactly why things are slow.
If you look at the test case, you'll notice that the test_long
unit test is currently being skipped. That's because if it were to run with the current implementation of find_anagrams
it would take several minutes to complete. We suggest that you try and get the test_short
to pass first, then remove the @skip
line and ensure that the tests still pass.
You can run the doctests with the following command:
$ python -m doctest -v anagrams.py words/short.txt
You can also run the tests with the unittest framework. From the top level of the assignment, use the following command:
$ python -m unittest discover
Good Luck!