Finding matches in schedules of the workers

Instructions

Once you download the repo run the following line in your terminal to test the script with the dummy data:

python main.py

If you want to test the script with test data:

1. Go to "main.py" file
2. Change the line "file_name = 'data.txt'" for "file_name = 'data.txt'"
3. Run the following line:

python generate_txt.py && python main.py

Overwiew of the solution

The repo first generate a txt file in the same format as the examples. The days and hours for each employee were selected from the examples, for days worked the range was 3~5 days and for the hours the interval was 8 hours worked.

Then the dataset is imported it's treated to generate a list of dictionaries for each employee then to get the results asked in the exercise, it do combinations to get the matches between the employees.

Explanation of the approach

First generate the results as i wanted to see which was the best way to analyze the txt file and that was a list of dictionaries because we can access it's elements way more easy using comprehension lists than an entire dictionary. Then with a generated dummy dataset in the desired way I started to work to get the combinations for each employee name, and once obtained compare the day-hours-pairs for each one to see if there's a match. Once the desired result is obtained, the solution shift to start generating the scripts to import, read the file and treat it to get the names and pairs of d-h to build the list of dictionaries and then implement the solution with the generated dataset.