On 8 April 2013 17:20, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: >> I can't help point out, however, that if your initial implementation is to >> have your code return a constant, it's pretty likely to be an optimum >> solution in both time and space :-) > > Likely, but not certain. > > # 1 > def fifty_stars(): > return "**************************************************" > > # 2 > fifty_stars=lambda "*"*50
There's a whole competition about writing the smallest program which outputs the song "99 bottles of beer": http://codegolf.com/99-bottles-of-beer Cheers, -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list