Answers to some short fizzbuzz-style interview questions - found via @jackweirdy on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/117812/alternate-fizzbuzz-questions/117891#117891

questions.py

#1 reverse a string
assert 'Hello'[::-1] == 'olleH'

#2 reverse a sentence
assert ' '.join('bob likes dogs'.split(' ')[::-1]) == 'dogs likes bob'

#3 find the minimum in a list
assert min([10, 8, 6, 7, 3, 4]) == 3

#4 find the maximum in a list
assert max([10, 8, 6, 7, 3, 4]) == 10

#5 calculate a remainder
assert 9 % 7 == 2

#6 return distinct values from a list including duplicates
values = [1, 3, 5, 3, 7, 3, 1, 1, 5]
assert list(set(values)) == [1, 3, 5, 7]

#7 return distinct values and their counts
assert {value: values.count(value) for value in set(values)} == {1: 3, 3: 3, 5: 2, 7: 1}

#8 given a string of expressions, and a set of variable/value pairs, return the result of the expression
assert eval("a + b+c -d".replace('a', '1').replace('b', '7').replace('c', '3').replace('d', '14')) == -3