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 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
Condensing is good but only as far as code for decompressing is small... By the way, after I noticed that I program for 2.3, I tried with 2.4 and get out extra characters thanks for generator expression and .join() integration. So now I am at 147. Probably a lot of reserve as I have 3 fors... One for just for the purpose of getting a name: ...x.... for x in [scalar] Probably its time rething solution from scratch... Roman Susi -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
