examshell-python

Interactive terminal shell for practising 42-style Python exam tasks. Simulates the real exam environment — timed pressure, blind grading, sequential levels — or lets you work through exercises freely in practice mode.

Features

• Two modes — Real (exam simulation) and Practice (free training)
• Automatic grading — grademe runs your solution against test cases and shows a results table
• Multi-language task descriptions — each task is described in EN, DE, FR, ES, IT
• 14 tasks across 6 levels — from easy warm-ups to hard algorithmic challenges
• Clean terminal UI — built with Rich

Installation

Requires Python 3.10+.

pip install examshell-python

Or install from source:

git clone <repo-url>
cd examshell-python
pip install .

Usage

examshell42

On launch you choose an available exam rank, then a mode. In the mode menu, choose b to return to rank selection:

╭─ Choose your Exam mode ─╮
│ Real mode       (1)     │
│ Practice mode   (2)     │
│ Back to rank    (b)     │
╰─────────────────────────╯

At startup, examshell attempts to refresh ranks 03, 04, and 05 from the exam sites and saves valid task data as rank*.json. If an update fails, existing local task files remain available and the application continues offline.

Real mode

Simulates the actual exam. Tasks are drawn randomly per level. Each correct solution earns +16 points; reach 100 to pass.

Practice mode

Work through all tasks in any order, retry freely, no score pressure.

How it works

When a session starts, examshell creates a working directory (exam42/) with two sub-folders:

exam42/
├── subjects/
│   └── <task_name>/
│       ├── <task_name>.en.txt   ← task description + signature + examples
│       ├── <task_name>.de.txt
│       └── ...
└── rendu/
    └── <task_name>/
        └── <task_name>.py       ← put your solution here

Write your solution in rendu/<task_name>/<task_name>.py, then run grademe. The shell imports your file, executes each example against it, and prints a pass/fail table.

Tasks

Dependencies

• pyjsparser ≥ 2.7.1 — parse downloaded task data
• pydantic ≥ 2.0 — task data models
• rich ≥ 13.0 — terminal UI
• requests ≥ 2.0 — download task data

Project structure

src/examshell/
├── __init__.py
├── __main__.py
├── main.py           # CLI entry point, mode logic, UI screens
├── models.py         # Pydantic models (Task, Description, Example)
├── task_generator.py # TaskManager: file creation, grading, task selection
├── config.py
└── data/
    └── data.json     # All task definitions

License

MIT