This is a pair programming exercise and the objective is to understand how you think, plan and structure as well as your problem solving skills, don't worry if you have some sintax mistakes or you end up with some broken test, make sure you communicate what you have in mind and don't hesitate to ask or share your thoughts about how/what would you do improve if you had some extra time.
We want to implement a function that given a file with a list of names and a number n, will return a list with n randomly selected names from that names file, to achieve this you will need to implement the random_names function in the names.py script.
The format of the names data in the names.txt file is consists in a name and number of occurrences.
Richard 2467544
Joseph 2352889
Thomas 2160330You have a number of tests to check that your function implements the requirements.
To run the test execute the following command from the random-names directory:
python tests.pyImplement the random_names function defined in the random_names.py file
- Returns a list of
nrandom names, i.e: withn=3return something like["Richard", "Joseph", "Thomas"] - Do not include blank names or new line characters
- Do not include invalid names like digits
- Do not include duplicates
- If there is not enough valid names in the data file raise a
ValueError - Descending order by number of occurences