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Are you allowed to import things like permutation from itertools for Python coding?
I haven’t used itertools, but I wanted to know if I could.
Thanks,
-R
There is definitely a grey area in using libraries rather than writing your own, but with general purpose functions like this it is reasonable to import them. That wouldn’t be the case with existing cipher tools. When we adjudicate the winners we take account of how much originality the solution shows, so there is some credit for original contributions in code where it is used, as well as ingenuity. Hope that helps, Harry