weigh = lambda a,b: sum(b)-sum(a)
FindCoin = lambda A: 0 if (n := len(A)) == 1 else (m := n//3) * (w := 1 + weigh(A[:m], A[2*m:])) + FindCoin(A[m*w:m*(w+1)])
print(FindCoin([1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1]))

filename = "data.txt"
with open(filename, "r") as file:
    file_contents = file.readlines()
    file_contents = [line.strip() for line in file_contents]

print("File contents:")
for line in file_contents:
    print(line)

def print_x_pattern(size):
    i,j = 0,size - 1

    while j >= 0 and i < size:

        initial_spaces = ' '*min(i,j)
        middle_spaces = ' '*(abs(i - j) - 1)
        final_spaces = ' '*(size - 1 - max(i,j))

        if j == i:
            print(initial_spaces + '*' + final_spaces)
        else:
            print(initial_spaces + '*' + middle_spaces + '*' + final_spaces)

        i += 1
        j -= 1

print_x_pattern(7)

import subprocess

class CommandRunner:
    def run_command(self, command):
        command_process = subprocess.Popen(command, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, text=True)
        output = command_process.communicate()[0].strip()
        return_code = command_process.returncode
        return output, return_code

def main():
    # Create instance of CommandRunner
    runner = CommandRunner()
    
    # Define the command
    command = 'ping -c 4 localhost'
    
    try:
        # Run the command and get output and return code
        output, return_code = runner.run_command(command)
        
        # Print the output and return code
        print(f"Command output:\n{output}")
        print(f"Return code: {return_code}")
        
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"An error occurred: {e}")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

from statistics import median, mean, mode

def print_stats(array):
  print(array)
  print("median =", median(array))
  print("mean   =", mean(array))
  print("mode   =", mode(array))
  print()

print_stats([1, 2, 3, 3, 4])
print_stats([1, 2, 3, 3])