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 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
I have a 163 character version(on 8 lines, haven't tried to compress it further) that does something like that.. the string ended up being printable enough to be included in the source unescaped. I think for most approaches, any space you save by using a string you lose after quoting it and using ord() to turn a character back into a number. I'm sure this particular method is a dead end, but it is a very intersting and probably unique solution :-) -- - Justin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
