Baised standings nzec

[tcbpg_sof]

Hi,

I have tried to use python to solve problem Biased Standings (spoj.com/problems/BAISED/) just to try python out and I keep getting Runtime Error (NZEC). I really cannot figure out why I keep getting that error and I was wondering if you could help me out.

This is my code:

import sys
def read_non_empty():
	line = ""
	while line == "":
		line = raw_input()
	return line
try:
	num_test = int(read_non_empty())
	for i in xrange(num_test):
		num_part = int(read_non_empty())
    	all_data = [0]*num_part
	
	for  j in xrange(num_part):
		lista = read_non_empty().split()
		all_data[j] = int(lista[-1])

	all_data.sort()
	obj_func = 0

	for i,e in enumerate(all_data):
		obj_func += abs((e-1) - i)
	
	print(obj_func)
except:
	pass

Thank you all for your time.

[daft_wullie]

I think your code is fine - although you can optimize it, of course.

But I guess the main problem is that SPOJ returns NZEC error for situations where TLE would be correct. Really misleading. I submitted this code

while True:
	pass

and got NZEC

And there is a good chance that your code is too slow to finish within time limit, since you picked (once again) a problem where all succesfull python submissons used Psyco (you can detect this by the memory usage > 36M) which is no longer available on this server.

If you want to get an idea which problem can be solved using python, have a look at numerix' or mine submissions.