Yeah, nice one too, I've just finished solving it, actually I might consider this one a little bit more complex since the other one is more like a combination of well known procedures, who knows? Nevertheless I enjoyed the series.

Thank you! Very glad you enjoy my katas. Have you tried Hide a message in a deck of playing cards yet? ;-)

Very interesting kata to learn with.

You're very welcome, thank you too.

Glad you liked it! Thanks for your comment.

Reversing the process was tricky to figure out, I liked it very much.

Had to use a real deck to figure it out

not fixed.

Merged now, thanks @KayleighWasTaken for your work on this kata!

ha, yes, you were right. Rookie mistake on my part. Thanks!

Yeah I'm not wasting time debugging it for you since it's being changed anyway, but the tests are breaking due to something your code is doing.

Probably something to do with your global variables due to the implicit splat imports the runner adds everywhere.

Awesome, hoping your fork gets merged soon so I can solve. Anyways, I don't know. I started training this one today.

Well precisely none of that code is even present anymore, so yes.

I deleted the entire tests and started from scratch, only keeping the fixed cases.

How did you achieve that crash though, it didn't happen to us.

Does your fork resolve the following error in the current python tests?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/workspace/default/tests.py", line 337, in <module>
    test.assert_equals(playingCards.encode(message), playingCardsControl.encode(message))
                                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/workspace/default/tests.py", line 88, in encode
    deck.append(originalDeck[cardDigit])
                ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^
TypeError: list indices must be integers or slices, not float

Python fork with updated test framework

I refactored the tests to mirror the Scala ones I wrote at the same time, though you get nicer test grouping (Scalatest just gets in a fight with the test reporter if you try anything nested).