Tim Hochberg wrote: > Christian Tismer wrote: ...
>> - Squeezing many lines into one using semicola does not help, >> the program will be expanded to use one statement per line >> >> - blank lines are allowed and not counted if they are not >> needed as part of the code > > These two would be easy to acomplish using something like: > > def countchars(text): > n = 0 > for line in text.split('\n'): > n += len(line.strip()) > return n > > This would ignore leading and trailing white space as well as blank lines. > > Also makes > > a=5; b=10 > > measure as one character longer than > > a = 5 > b = 10 > > which can only be good. Good point! >> - the length of names does not count, unless the code depends on it. > > Probably too hard. I don't want to reward people for using ultra-short, unreadable variable names, but also not to enable them to code algorithms by them :-) My idea was to rename all variables by a simple transformation of the code objects, with the side rule that the program still works. This can be automated rather easily. > I thought the metric was characters, not lines. At least that's what the > 'about' page says. You still get hit by leading whitespace on multiple > line programs though. So why not simply count length of code objects? :-) Plus count every changeable name as one, others by length. Same for constants, so we don't get tricked by encoding the whole program by a tuple engine :-) ciao - chris -- Christian Tismer :^) <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tismerysoft GmbH : Have a break! Take a ride on Python's Johannes-Niemeyer-Weg 9A : *Starship* http://starship.python.net/ 14109 Berlin : PGP key -> http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/ work +49 30 802 86 56 mobile +49 173 24 18 776 fax +49 30 80 90 57 05 PGP 0x57F3BF04 9064 F4E1 D754 C2FF 1619 305B C09C 5A3B 57F3 BF04 whom do you want to sponsor today? http://www.stackless.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list