Kattis Grind

A small easy-to-use package of Python 3 scripts which can help speed up the process for competitive programming on Kattis. The scripts will download a local copy of the question (html file), and can automate testing inputs and outputs.

Requirements

Kattis Grind uses Python 3. To check if you have it:

foo@bar:~$ python3 --version
Python 3.7.3

If you don't have Python 3, you can install it from the Python Website.

The Kattis Grind setup requires requests, beautifulsoup4, and fake-useragent. To install them, execute

foo@bar:~$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

How do I use it?

Fetch a Question!

foo@bar:~/kattis-grind$ ./fetch.py hello

Test Your Solution!

foo@bar:~/kattis-grind$ ./test.py hello

Fetch Random Questions!

foo@bar:~/kattis-grind$ ./rand.py
How many problems: 5
Enter lower bound: 1.4
Enter upper bound: 1.6

There are optional command line arguments

foo@bar:~/kattis-grind$ ./rand.py -n 5 -l 1.4 -u 1.6

Depending on how many questions you want, and what range they're between, this operation may take several seconds (sometimes a good 10 - 40 seconds!!). Keep in mind that while it takes long, it definitely works!

Current Bugs

Currently, Windows seems to have some trouble with encoding characters and Python crashes as a result of trying to save HTML files without proper encoding. This does not occur on Linux. Be wary of questions with foreign characters in them, for example: ő

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to JarateKing and Ben Boyle for the original grinding idea.
• Thanks to Will Taylor for fixing test.py to work on Windows machines.
• Thanks to the UPEI SMCSS for all the motivation!!!