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 be. 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 that, since a 10 byte string will generally have a representation that is longer than 10 bytes because of the way the escape sequences get printed out. As a result various people seem to be encoding the data in long integers of one sort or another. The data is then extracted using some recipe involving shifts and &s. -tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
