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Warehouse inventory manager

What this preview is

Warehouse inventory manager is a easy quant coding problem on language knowledge in Python.

Difficulty
Easy
Topic
Language Knowledge
Discipline
Quant development
Language
Python

What this Python object-oriented coding problem tests

This is an easy coding problem that evaluates your ability to implement custom exception handling and class-level state management in Python. It combines basic language knowledge with practical warehouse-system design patterns.

The problem requires you to build a Product class that enforces a dynamic capacity constraint by tracking the total number of active instances. You'll need to understand how Python's __init__ and __del__ methods work, how to raise custom exceptions with formatted messages, and how to maintain shared state across instances. The solution hinges on correctly incrementing a counter when an instance is created and decrementing it when an instance is garbage-collected—but only if the capacity check passes before creation.

  • Custom exception class design and inheritance
  • Class variables vs. instance variables
  • Lifecycle methods (__init__, __del__)
  • Conditional instance creation and error handling
  • Interaction with external state (Limit.get_limit())

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