Re: Most SHAMEFUL one-liner:
Jeremy Moles wrote: I was looking through some code of my today and noticed this little gem I wrote a few days back that I had totally forgot about: fill = [(%%-%ds\n % (columns - 1)) % for i in range(yoffset - 2)] ...and then I went on to do: .join(fill) Talk about using the wrong tool for the job... :( All I needed was: * (columns - 1) * (yoffset - 2) Anyone else remember any shameful one-liners like this? :) I'm just curious to see what kinda mistakes people make you think about a solution WAY TO HARD... :) So TIMTOWTDI after all in Python!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Most SHAMEFUL one-liner:
I was looking through some code of my today and noticed this little gem I wrote a few days back that I had totally forgot about: fill = [(%%-%ds\n % (columns - 1)) % for i in range(yoffset - 2)] ...and then I went on to do: .join(fill) Talk about using the wrong tool for the job... :( All I needed was: * (columns - 1) * (yoffset - 2) Anyone else remember any shameful one-liners like this? :) I'm just curious to see what kinda mistakes people make you think about a solution WAY TO HARD... :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Most SHAMEFUL one-liner:
On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:25:41 -0500, Jeremy Moles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking through some code of my today and noticed this little gem I wrote a few days back that I had totally forgot about: fill = [(%%-%ds\n % (columns - 1)) % for i in range(yoffset - 2)] ...and then I went on to do: .join(fill) Talk about using the wrong tool for the job... :( All I needed was: * (columns - 1) * (yoffset - 2) So the original was wrong as well as a bit opaque? (What happened to the \n ? ;-) Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
