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I did the exact same counter problem when I did a phone interview with Google last week. Below is an outline of how I went about solving the problem. Please note, this question was the third question asked during my one hour phone interview. If this question had been asked first, I would have probably not been able to do as good of a job on it. Since it was asked third, I was sufficiently 'in the zone' so the code came out relatively easily.

I started out by writing a quick doctest to define the interface:

>>> counter = Counter()
>>> counter.increment()
>>> counter.query(‘minute’)
1
>>> counter.query(‘hour’)

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def myfunction(arg1, arg2):
    """
    The Docstring.
    """

    for x in range(500):
        print """This multiline string makes the code look ugly.
I wish there were some way to
write this string in such a way that looks better.
I could add spaces at the front of each line in this string,

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LOGGING = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': True,
    'formatters': {
        'verbose': {
            'format': '%(levelname)s %(asctime)s %(module)s %(message)s'
        },
    },
    'handlers': {
        'sentry': {