Re: Python coding

On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 16:47:29 -0600, Karen Park declaimed the following: >I am trying to do a python code. Using Windows, I got as far as the step that >asks me to “copy the logistics.py file and save it in the same folder that you >are running python from” (as displayed by the command prompt).

RE: Python coding

Create a folder anywhere convenient and copy it in there.Then - if python has been downloaded from the Python website and installed "normally" you can open a command prompt in that folder and type C:\\$>python logistics.py"normally" means Python is in your path environment variable.--(Unsigned

Re: Python coding

On 27Nov2022 16:47, Karen Park wrote: I am trying to do a python code. Using Windows, I got as far as the step that asks me to “copy the logistics.py file and save it in the same folder that you are running python from” (as displayed by the command prompt). Can you help direct me where to go t

Re: python coding contest

Michael Spencer wrote: > Claudio Grondi wrote: > >> ...I analysed the outcome of it and have >> come to the conclusion, that there were two major factors which >> contributed to squeezing of code: >> >>(1). usage of available variants for coding of the same thing >>(2). sqeezing the size

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Christian Tismer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hans Nowak wrote: > > >... for u in(3,14,10)) > > > > can be written as: > > > >... for u in 3,14,10) > > > > which would shave off a character. Tuples don't always need parentheses... > > This would work with a list comprehension. > Do

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Claudio Grondi wrote: > ...I analysed the outcome of it and have > come to the conclusion, that there were two major factors which > contributed to squeezing of code: > >(1). usage of available variants for coding of the same thing >(2). sqeezing the size of used numeric and string litera

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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Simon Hengel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, > >> After all, I'd really love to set up another contest with >> different measures and criteria. > >for future events i will take a close look at other possibilities for >doing a ranking. At the moment the 22c3 and t

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Claudio Grondi wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:49:58 +0100, Claudio Grondi wrote: >> >> >> >>> What I have thought about as a simpler/better solution is a method >>> allowing to avoid processing the content of the string or long >>> integer object by looping over its

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >>I'm reminded of a time I was going for a drive in the country when I drove >>past an apple orchid. Standing in the orchid was a farmer with a pig. He >>lifted the pig into the air, and the pig then bit an apple and slowly >>chewed it. The farme

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Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I'm reminded of a time I was going for a drive in the country when I drove > past an apple orchid. Standing in the orchid was a farmer with a pig. He > lifted the pig into the air, and the pig then bit an apple and slowly > chewed it. The farmer then carried him over to an

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Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:49:58 +0100, Claudio Grondi wrote: > > > >>What I have thought about as a simpler/better solution is a method >>allowing to avoid processing the content of the string or long integer >>object by looping over its content. > > > How can you avoi

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On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:49:58 +0100, Claudio Grondi wrote: > What I have thought about as a simpler/better solution is a method > allowing to avoid processing the content of the string or long integer > object by looping over its content. How can you avoid looping over its content? Whether you

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Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:34:33 +0100, Claudio Grondi wrote: > > >>>Please send me comments, suggestions and ideas. >> >>Now, after the contest is over I analysed the outcome of it and have >>come to the conclusion, that there were two major factors which >>contributed to

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Claudio Grondi wrote: >> Please send me comments, suggestions and ideas. > > > Now, after the contest is over I analysed the outcome of it and have > come to the conclusion, that there were two major factors which > contributed to squeezing of code: > > (1). usage of available variants for c

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On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:34:33 +0100, Claudio Grondi wrote: >> Please send me comments, suggestions and ideas. > > Now, after the contest is over I analysed the outcome of it and have > come to the conclusion, that there were two major factors which > contributed to squeezing of code: > >(1)

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> Please send me comments, suggestions and ideas. Now, after the contest is over I analysed the outcome of it and have come to the conclusion, that there were two major factors which contributed to squeezing of code: (1). usage of available variants for coding of the same thing (2). sqeez

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Hans Nowak wrote: >... for u in(3,14,10)) > > can be written as: > >... for u in 3,14,10) > > which would shave off a character. Tuples don't always need parentheses... This would work with a list comprehension. Doesn't work with a generator expression (thought of it, too, and the l

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André wrote: > Hans Nowak wrote: > >>André wrote: > > >>I don't know if this suggestion has been made already, but it seems to >>me that the end of the expression >> >> ... for u in(3,14,10)) >> >>can be written as: >> >> ... for u in 3,14,10) >> >>which would shave off a character. Tuple

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Hans Nowak wrote: > André wrote: > > I don't know if this suggestion has been made already, but it seems to > me that the end of the expression > >... for u in(3,14,10)) > > can be written as: > >... for u in 3,14,10) > > which would shave off a character. Tuples don't always need paren

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André wrote: > Christian Tismer wrote: >>It seems to be very hard to improve. No idea if this is >>possible: One might try to re-order the character string >>a bit to change moduli, trying to get one more number in >> >>(3,14,10) >> >>to be one-digit. Haven't tried, yet, and chances are small. >>

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Christian Tismer wrote: > André wrote: > > For the few that might be interested, I will be posting the details of > > a 117 character long solution to the challenge on my blog > > http://aroberge.blogspot.com/. > ... > It seems to be very hard to improve. No idea if this is > possible: One might t

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André wrote: > For the few that might be interested, I will be posting the details of > a 117 character long solution to the challenge on my blog > http://aroberge.blogspot.com/. Congratulations! I'm very impressed by this elegant solution. It seems to be very hard to improve. No idea if this is p

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Just wrote: > Duh, sorry, it's early. 118 is better than 119. Printable or not :) > Still, a 119 bytes version that is fully printable is pretty cool. No, you're right, I also somehow missed the point. I believed "»" to be "printable" (opposed to control char's) but technically speaking, the co

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So, testosterone wins again! We get to boast: "Mine's smaller than your's" Lets wait for Pythonic to go to bed, then sneak downstairs, go to that tripple-X rated 'shortest solutions' website, and 'whack-off' some solutions. Unghhh, my solution... its coming!!! Well don't forget to clean up be

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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Just <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Christoph Zwerschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mark Dickinson wrote: > > > Here's a variant of André's brilliant idea that's > > > 119 characters long, and fully printable: > > > > > > j='

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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christoph Zwerschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Dickinson wrote: > > Here's a variant of André's brilliant idea that's > > 119 characters long, and fully printable: > > > > j=''.join;seven_seg=lambda z:j(j(' _ | |_ _|_|' > > [ord('^r|=Zm.:v\r'[int(a)])%u*

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Mark Dickinson wrote: > Here's a variant of André's brilliant idea that's > 119 characters long, and fully printable: > > j=''.join;seven_seg=lambda z:j(j(' _ | |_ _|_|' > [ord('^r|=Zm.:v\r'[int(a)])%u*2:][:3]for a in z) > +"\n"for u in(3,7,8)) You have an escaped CR (\r) as the last character

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I managed it with vim. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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Claudio Grondi wrote: > > P.S. By the way: on Windows XP with UltraEdit there was no problem to > input the special characters. There is an ASCII table and a HEX editor > mode available for it. Any hints which free editor makes it possible, too? I simply used Pythonwin. (print chr(3), then cut an

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Shane Hathaway wrote: > Claudio Grondi wrote: > > so I tried all which made sense in the context of '0' conversion and > > found out, that it should be the > > > >' _ |_|_ _| |' > > > > not the at http://aroberge.blogspot.com/ > > > >' _ |_|_ _| |' > > The HTML source has the three spaces

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Claudio Grondi wrote: > so I tried all which made sense in the context of '0' conversion and > found out, that it should be the > >' _ |_|_ _| |' > > not the at http://aroberge.blogspot.com/ > >' _ |_|_ _| |' The HTML source has the three spaces. If the code had been surrounded by

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André wrote: > For the few that might be interested, I will be posting the details of > a 117 character long solution to the challenge on my blog > http://aroberge.blogspot.com/. > > Enjoy! > > André > It doesn't work for me as described on that page. The output is scrumbled. It seems, that the

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Shane Hathaway wrote: > André wrote: > >>For the few that might be interested, I will be posting the details of >>a 117 character long solution to the challenge on my blog >>http://aroberge.blogspot.com/. >> >>Enjoy! > > > You took advantage of prime numbers, enabling you to extract encoded > i

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André wrote: > For the few that might be interested, I will be posting the details of > a 117 character long solution to the challenge on my blog > http://aroberge.blogspot.com/. > > Enjoy! You took advantage of prime numbers, enabling you to extract encoded information using a single modulus op

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For the few that might be interested, I will be posting the details of a 117 character long solution to the challenge on my blog http://aroberge.blogspot.com/. Enjoy! André -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thomas Heller wrote: > >>X=' _ _ _ | _| _ |_|_' >>Y=0x23018F406A3530EC273F008 >>j="".join >>seven_seg=lambda n:j(j(c)+"\n"for c in zip(*[X[Y>>m+int(d)*9&7::8]for d in n >>for m in(6,3,0)])) > > > Interesting bit: > > Although there are more 3-char combinations

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Szabolcs Nagy wrote: > my two solutions (well I wasn't so clever to encode everything in > strings instead of numbers, but at least it won't give warnings about > non ascii characters): > 128: > j,seven_seg=''.join,lambda s:j(j(' |_ |'[i>>3*int(c)&b]for c in s for b > in(4,2,1))+'\n'for i in(306775

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my two solutions (well I wasn't so clever to encode everything in strings instead of numbers, but at least it won't give warnings about non ascii characters): 128: j,seven_seg=''.join,lambda s:j(j(' |_ |'[i>>3*int(c)&b]for c in s for b in(4,2,1))+'\n'for i in(306775170,1060861645,524130191)) 122:

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Tim Hochberg wrote: > g=''.join;seven_seg=lambda i:g( > g(' _|x|'[ord("~$]m'k{d\x7fo"[int(n)])>>s&j] > for n in i for j in(2,1,4))+'\n'for s in(6,0,3)) > > I've replaced the unprintable characters and added some preemptive > linebreaks so that hopefully this won't get too munged. It's all clear

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Tim Hochberg wrote: > Shane Hathaway wrote: >> Andrew Durdin wrote: >> >>> On 12/28/05, Shane Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> I just found a 125 character solution. It's actually faster and more readable than the 133 character solution (though it's still obscure.) >>> >>> Hav

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Shane Hathaway wrote: > Andrew Durdin wrote: > >>On 12/28/05, Shane Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>I just found a 125 character solution. It's actually faster and more >>>readable than the 133 character solution (though it's still obscure.) >> >> >>Having spent a good deal of time a

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Thomas Heller wrote: > X=' _ _ _ | _| _ |_|_' > Y=0x23018F406A3530EC273F008 > j="".join > seven_seg=lambda n:j(j(c)+"\n"for c in zip(*[X[Y>>m+int(d)*9&7::8]for d in n > for m in(6,3,0)])) Interesting bit: Although there are more 3-char combinations when you read vertically, they compact be

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Shane Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andrew Durdin wrote: >> On 12/28/05, Shane Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>I just found a 125 character solution. It's actually faster and more >>>readable than the 133 character solution (though it's still obscure.) >> Having spent a good de

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Andrew Durdin wrote: > On 12/28/05, Shane Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I just found a 125 character solution. It's actually faster and more >>readable than the 133 character solution (though it's still obscure.) > > > Having spent a good deal of time and effort, and not getting below

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On 12/28/05, Shane Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just found a 125 character solution. It's actually faster and more > readable than the 133 character solution (though it's still obscure.) Having spent a good deal of time and effort, and not getting below 144 characters, I am now very ea

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Duncan Booth wrote: > Christian Tismer wrote: > >> And then help me to setup a different contest about content -- chris >> > Count me in. Great! Let's find a problem small enough to solve in reasonably time and large enough to exploit Python qualities. sincerely -- chris (below 130) -- Chr

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> It seems, that the site had some trouble to stay online and especially > to provide the ranking today. There was a problem with our server, sorry for that. Have fun, Simon Hengel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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Simon Hengel wrote: > Hello, > we are hosting a python coding contest an we even managed to provide a > price for the winner... > > http://pycontest.net/ > > The contest is coincidentally held during the 22c3 and we will be > present there. > > https://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/wiki/Python_cod

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I cannot reach the contest site at since all this morning. :-( -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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I cannot not reach the contest site at since all this morning. :-( -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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> A funny thing happened to me. > >The http://www.pycontest.net/ site was down for some minutes because : > >"A problem occurred in a Python script. " > > it seems, that > >'some clever cheat' > > has crashed it. That was me, i broke things while tweaking some stuff. Sorry for the

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Hello, > After all, I'd really love to set up another contest with > different measures and criteria. for future events i will take a close look at other possibilities for doing a ranking. At the moment the 22c3 and the contest is eating up all my time. Pleas appreciate that i may not keep up wit

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> the dream of winning the contest seems to be over. Sorry for that, I'm considering doing a ranking on the nicest cheats too. Have fun, Simon Hengel -- python coding contest - http://www.pycontest.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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Simon Hengel wrote: > Hello, > we are hosting a python coding contest an we even managed to provide a > price for the winner... > > http://pycontest.net/ > > The contest is coincidentally held during the 22c3 and we will be > present there. > > https://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/wiki/Python_cod

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[Bengt Richter] > ... > [23:28] C:\pywk\clp\seven\pycontest_01>wc -lc seven_seg.py > 2136 seven_seg.py > > 2 lines, 136 chars including unix-style lineseps (is that cheating on > windows?) Na. Most native Windows apps (including native Windows Python) don't care whether \n or

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Marius Gedminas wrote: > Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: > >>On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:02:57 -0700, Tim Hochberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>Shane Hathaway wrote: >>> Paul McGuire wrote: Also, here's another cheat version. (No, 7seg.com does not exist.) import urllib2 >

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Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: > On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:02:57 -0700, Tim Hochberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Shane Hathaway wrote: > >> Paul McGuire wrote: > >> > >> > >> Also, here's another cheat version. (No, 7seg.com does not exist.) > >> > >>import urllib2 > >>def seven_seg(x):return u

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Shane Hathaway wrote: > I just found a 125 character solution. It's actually faster and more > readable than the 133 character solution (though it's still obscure.) > > It depends on Python 2.4. If Python 2.3 compatibility is required for > the contest, I have to add 4 characters. I asked, 2.

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I just found a 125 character solution. It's actually faster and more readable than the 133 character solution (though it's still obscure.) It depends on Python 2.4. If Python 2.3 compatibility is required for the contest, I have to add 4 characters. Shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] pycontest_01]$ wc

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Christian Tismer wrote: > And then help me to setup a different contest about content -- chris > Count me in. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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Tim Hochberg wrote: > py pan wrote: > >>When you guys say 127~150 characters, did you guys mean >>usinging test_vectors.py in some way? Or there's no import at all? >> > > > No import at all. The shortest solution reported so far is 131 > characters. Getting down to 127 is just a guess as to wh

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On 27 Dec 2005 09:24:44 GMT, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Scott David Daniels wrote: > >>> I definitively need a new algorythm. >>> >> And I am sadly stuck at 169. Not even spitting distance from 149 (which >> sounds like a non-cheat version). > >Throw it away and start again with a

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Christian Tismer wrote: >>> I feel that python is more beautiful and readable, even if you write >>> short programs. > Looking at what I produced the last days, I'm not convinced... Me neither. Especially since I've taken the one-liner road. Python can be very unreadable... sometimes. > And th

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On 12/27/05, Christian Tismer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And we are of course implementing algorithms with a twisted goal-setin mind: How to express this the shortest way, not elegantly,just how to shave off one or even two bytes, re-iterating thepossible algorithms again and again, just to find a

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Christian Tismer wrote: [SNIP] > And then help me to setup a different contest about content -- chris As usual, I expect that actually having some working code measuring 'Pythonic' length (and I'm sure we could get into all sorts of fun arguments about the exact definition of that) would go a l

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Remi Villatel wrote: > Scott David Daniels wrote: > > [--CUT---] >>> 39 bytes... 53 bytes... It gives me the impression to follow a jet >>> plane with a bike with my 179 bytes! > [--CUT--] > >> And I am sadly stuck at 169. Not even spitting distance from 149 (which >> sounds like a

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Scott David Daniels wrote: [--CUT---] >> 39 bytes... 53 bytes... It gives me the impression to follow a jet >> plane with a bike with my 179 bytes! [--CUT--] > And I am sadly stuck at 169. Not even spitting distance from 149 (which > sounds like a non-cheat version). Try harder

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James Tanis wrote: > On 12/25/05, Simon Hengel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >>> I'm envisioning lots of convoluted one-liners which >>> are more suitable to a different P-language... :-) >> I feel that python is more beautiful and readable, even

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Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: > On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:02:57 -0700, Tim Hochberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Shane Hathaway wrote: >> >>>Paul McGuire wrote: >>> >>> >>>Also, here's another cheat version. (No, 7seg.com does not exist.) >>> >>> import urllib2 >>> def seven_seg(x):return urllib2

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Tim Hochberg wrote: > Note that in principle it's possible to encode the data for how to > display a digit in one byte. Thus it's at least theoretically possible > to condense all of the information about the string into a string that's > 10 bytes long. In practice it turns out to be hard to do tha

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I now have a version which passes the test suite in 32 bytes grin> > > -T. > After I have posted the statement, that I have one with 39 bytes, I had the 32 version five minutes later, but thougt that instead of posting it I can maybe use it as entry on the contest ..

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On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:02:57 -0700, Tim Hochberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Shane Hathaway wrote: >> Paul McGuire wrote: >> >> >> Also, here's another cheat version. (No, 7seg.com does not exist.) >> >>import urllib2 >>def seven_seg(x):return urllib2.urlopen('http://7seg.com/'+x).read() >

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Tim Hochberg wrote: > py pan wrote: >> When you guys say 127~150 characters, did you guys mean >> usinging test_vectors.py in some way? Or there's no import at all? >> > > No import at all. The shortest solution reported so far is 131 > characters. Getting down to 127 is just a guess as to wher

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Shane Hathaway wrote: > Paul McGuire wrote: > >>"Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >>>Well *I'm* certainly looking forward to learning some new tricks! My >>>(non-cheat) version is a comparatively-portly 245, and no alternatives are >>>popping into

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py pan wrote: > When you guys say 127~150 characters, did you guys mean > usinging test_vectors.py in some way? Or there's no import at all? > No import at all. The shortest solution reported so far is 131 characters. Getting down to 127 is just a guess as to where the lower bound is likely to

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On 12/25/05, Simon Hengel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I'm envisioning lots of convoluted one-liners which > > are more suitable to a different P-language... :-) > I feel that python is more beautiful and readable, even if you write > short prog

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When you guys say 127~150 characters, did you guys mean usinging test_vectors.py in some way? Or there's no import at all? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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So, is an ugly short one a candidate? i managed in 199 bytes :) i'll send it in anyway ciao http://gumuz.looze.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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Shane Hathaway wrote: > Tim Hochberg wrote: > >>Paul McGuire wrote: >> >> >>>"Shane Hathaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >>>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >>> I'm down to 133 characters (counted according to 'wc -c') on a single line. It contains about 11 whitespace characters (

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Tim Hochberg wrote: > This is interesting. I have a six line solution that is 133 characters > long. I use no long integers, which is what's interesting; two > distinct solutions with the same length. I played with long integers > for a bit, and I can see how one could use a single long integer, bu

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Tim Hochberg wrote: > Paul McGuire wrote: > >>"Shane Hathaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >>>I'm down to 133 characters (counted according to 'wc -c') on a single >>>line. It contains about 11 whitespace characters (depending on what you >>>consider whites

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Paul McGuire wrote: > "Shane Hathaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>I'm down to 133 characters (counted according to 'wc -c') on a single >>line. It contains about 11 whitespace characters (depending on what you >>consider whitespace.) It's way too tricky for

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Ciao, Shane Hathaway! Che stavi dicendo? > I'm down to 133 characters (counted according to 'wc -c') on a single > line. It contains about 11 whitespace characters (depending on what you > consider whitespace.) $ wc -c seven_seg.py 137 seven_seg.py $ sed 's/ //g' seven_seg.py|wc -c 120 (yeah, to

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I now have a version which passes the test suite in 32 bytes -T. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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"Shane Hathaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'm down to 133 characters (counted according to 'wc -c') on a single > line. It contains about 11 whitespace characters (depending on what you > consider whitespace.) It's way too tricky for my taste, but it's fun t

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Paul McGuire wrote: > "Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>Well *I'm* certainly looking forward to learning some new tricks! My >>(non-cheat) version is a comparatively-portly 245, and no alternatives are >>popping into my head at the moment! >> >>--

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Scott David Daniels wrote: >> I definitively need a new algorythm. >> > And I am sadly stuck at 169. Not even spitting distance from 149 (which > sounds like a non-cheat version). Throw it away and start again with a fresh (clean) solution. That's what I did when I'd reached the limit of nest

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"Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Well *I'm* certainly looking forward to learning some new tricks! My > (non-cheat) version is a comparatively-portly 245, and no alternatives are > popping into my head at the moment! > > -- Paul > > down to 2 lines, 229

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"Scott David Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Remi Villatel wrote: > > Tim Hochberg wrote: > > > >>> I am currently at 39 bytes following the requirements and the > >>> principle given above (my module passes the test). Anyone able to > >>> beat that? > > > >>

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Remi Villatel wrote: > Tim Hochberg wrote: > >>> I am currently at 39 bytes following the requirements and the >>> principle given above (my module passes the test). Anyone able to >>> beat that? > >> Wow! It'll be interesting to see how to do that. The obvious way gives >> 53 bytes. Hmmm, I'l

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Remi Villatel wrote: > 39 bytes... 53 bytes... It gives me the impression to follow a jet plane > with a bike with my 179 bytes! > > There isn't a single superfluous byte. My code is so compressed that the > syntactic colorizer can't cope any more. > > I definitively need a new algorythm. Yo

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Tim Hochberg wrote: >> I am currently at 39 bytes following the requirements and the >> principle given above (my module passes the test). Anyone able to beat >> that? > Wow! It'll be interesting to see how to do that. The obvious way gives > 53 bytes. Hmmm, I'll have to see what can be done..

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Tim Hochberg wrote: > In the 130's is definately possible, but I haven't heard of anyone doing > better than that. I have a version that is 127, but only if you strip extra whitespace :-( -- - Justin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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Tim Hochberg wrote: [CHOP] > > import test;seven_seg=test.test_vectors.get > > This works if you run test. It fails if you try to run it standalone > since the import order is wrong. [CHOP] Or maybe not. An earlier version did, but this one seems OK. -tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/li

Re: python coding contest

Tim Hochberg wrote: > import test;seven_seg=test.test_vectors.get Oupps, good (being blinded after all the other from imports and __import__(...) ) -- Christian Tismer :^) tismerysoft GmbH : Have a break! Take a ride on

Re: python coding contest

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:33:42 -0700, Tim Hochberg wrote: > > >>Claudio Grondi wrote: > > >>>I am currently at 39 bytes following the requirements and the principle >>>given above (my module passes the test). Anyone able to beat that? >> >>Wow! It'll be interesting to se

Re: python coding contest

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:33:42 -0700, Tim Hochberg wrote: > >> Claudio Grondi wrote: > >>> I am currently at 39 bytes following the requirements and the principle >>> given above (my module passes the test). Anyone able to beat that? >> Wow! It'll be interesting to see how

Re: python coding contest

On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:33:42 -0700, Tim Hochberg wrote: > Claudio Grondi wrote: >> I am currently at 39 bytes following the requirements and the principle >> given above (my module passes the test). Anyone able to beat that? > > Wow! It'll be interesting to see how to do that. The obvious way g

Re: python coding contest

Tim Hochberg wrote: > Claudio Grondi wrote: >> Peter Otten wrote: > [SNIP] >>>How good is "good" for >>> >>>import test_vectors >>>seven_seg = test_vectors.test_vectors.get >>> >>>or code using the test suite in general? >>> >>>Peter >>> >> >> This started to remind myself about the story of the

Re: python coding contest

Tim Hochberg wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Currently I'm on 149 characters in one line - 128 without >> spaces/newlines. (it'd be three characters shorter if it didn't have >> to end with a "\n") > > > It'll be interesting to see what the short 1-line answers look like. I > have a hard

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