On 27 Dec 2005 09:24:44 GMT, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Scott David Daniels wrote: > >>> I definitively need a new algorythm. <g> >>> >> 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 nested maps and lambdas at 150 >characters. I'm now on 134 characters and the solution is very nearly >legible. (Frustratingly, I'm away for the next few days, so I may not get a >chance to submit my solution). > >It would be a nice idea to come up with a scoring system which better >reflects Python's ideals. For example, use the parser in Python to count up >various syntactic elements, score 0 for comments, indents, dedents, >newlines, docstrings, 1 for each name or operation used and higher scores >for things like lambda or overly complex expressions.
[23:28] C:\pywk\clp\seven\pycontest_01>py24 test.py . -------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 1 test in 0.391s OK [23:28] C:\pywk\clp\seven\pycontest_01>wc -lc seven_seg.py 2 136 seven_seg.py 2 lines, 136 chars including unix-style lineseps (is that cheating on windows?) No imports. Guess I'll have to try another tack ;-/ Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list