James Stroud wrote: > SuperHik wrote: > >>and the winner is... :D >>David Isaac wrote: >> >> >>>alpha = string.lowercase >>>x=(a+b+c for a in alpha for b in alpha for c in alpha) >> >> >> > > Not necessarily vying for winner, but David's solution is highly > specific as it doesn't do so well for something like > > aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa > aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaab > . > . > . > zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzy > zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz > > You can't justify your solution by requirements gold-plating ... see the subject line :-)
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