On 02/13/2014 01:01 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Emile van Sebille <em...@fenx.com> wrote:
On 2/13/2014 11:59 AM, Zachary Ware wrote:
In a fit of curiosity, I did some timings:
Snip of lots of TMTOWTDT/TIMTOWTDI/whatever... timed examples :)
But I didn't see this one:
s[::len(s)-1]
.... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGGGHHHH!
Really, I actually did pause, double-take, and then scream under my
breath, when I saw that. Yes, it works. But please, if you EVER do
this, save me the trouble and just submit your code to thedailywtf.com
straight away!
Oh, it's not that bad! All you have to do is handle the edge case of an empty
string:
s[::len(s)-1 if s else True]
*ducks and runs*
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