Python Developer Interview Questions: Fizz-Buzz

Fizz-buzz is a very basic interview question mainly asked to see if a developer/programmer can actually code or not. Nothing too sophisticated.I was asked to code a FizzBuzz today for the second time in my life and I thought why not to blog about it, since it seems to be getting popular to ask from developers. To make it a bit challenging for myself, I coded it in Python, since I have the least skill in coding Python, although I think it is a sexy language.

Interview Question: Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of five print “Buzz”. For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print “FizzBuzz”."

Solution:

__author__ = 'amir'

for x in range(1, 100):
    if x % 15 == 0:
        print 'fizzbuzz'
    elif x % 3 == 0:
        print 'fizz'
    elif x % 5 == 0:
        print 'buzz'
    else:
        print x

Remark: Just remember that a number that is both divisible by three and five is also divisible by 15. Another note is that you need to check if the divisible by 15 condition first of all, if not they end up in divisible by 3 and 5 condition. Makes sense, right? :)

Write to a prettified JSON file in Python (with least number of lines of code)

import json

jsonData = ['foo', {'bar': ('baz', None, 1.0, 2)}]
with open('sample.json', 'w') as outfile:
    json.dump(jsonData, outfile, sort_keys= True, indent=4)