[collyw]

That's very reasonable.

Everyone wants a miniature throwaway app, including project setup and test usually. Then you get a problem when one library you wanted to use doesn't install easily, or you have some random problem that takes an hour to debug.

Last time I got failed on a number of things many of which weren't asked for. Linting failed on two whitespaces, as I didn't have pylint set up on my home machine. I should have returned json, rather than html, despite the task asking for a 'page, no need for styling'. And I didn't provide a setup.py, despite it not being asked for. I provided the most difficult integration test to implement, but they complained I didn't add more unit tests, even though they has said to describe what tests you would have implemented if you were short on time, which I did.