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 ["Hello, World!"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Hello,_world!%22_program) is the traditional first program for beginning programming in a new language.
 
-**Note:** You can skip this exercise by running:
-
-    exercism skip $LANGUAGE hello-world
-
 ## Specification
 
 The `Hello World!` program will greet me, the caller.
@@ -16,20 +12,20 @@ If I neglect to give it my name, it will greet me by saying "Hello, World!"
 
 As programmers mature, they eventually want to test their code.
 
-Here at Exercism we simulate [Test-Driven Development](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development) (TDD), where you write your tests before writing any functionality. The simulation comes in the form of a pre-written test suite, which will signal that you have solved the problem.
+Here we simulate [Test-Driven Development](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development) (TDD), where you write your tests before writing any functionality. The simulation comes in the form of a pre-written test suite, which will signal that you have solved the problem.
 
 It will also provide you with a safety net to explore other solutions without breaking the functionality.
 
-### A typical TDD workflow on Exercism:
+### A typical TDD workflow
 
 1. Run the test file and pick one test that's failing.
 2. Write some code to fix the test you picked.
 3. Re-run the tests to confirm the test is now passing.
 4. Repeat from step 1.
-5. Submit your solution (`exercism submit /path/to/file`)
+5. Submit your solution.
 
 ## Instructions
 
 Submissions are encouraged to be general, within reason. Having said that, it's also important not to over-engineer a solution.
 
-It's important to remember that the goal is to make code as expressive and readable as we can. However, solutions to the hello-world exercise will not be reviewed by a person, but by rikki- the robot, who will offer an encouraging word.
+It's important to remember that the goal is to make code as expressive and readable as we can. However, solutions to the hello-world exercise will not be reviewed by a person, but by the robot, who will offer an encouraging word.
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 #
 # Skeleton file for the Python "Hello World" exercise.
 #
-
-
 def hello(name=''):
-    return
+    if name:
+        return "Hello, %s!" % name
+    return "Hello, World!"
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