Check the SPOJ Python forums, the process is explained there.

It's all about adding two lines of code at the beginning of your script. But
I can't recall which two.

Ian.

On 9/28/07, Aditya Lal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello Kent,
> I tried finding solution with using only strings but unfortunately
> reversing a number has some interesting issues - For example: take following
> two numbers -
> 002000 002000
>
> though the final answer is 4 - arriving at it using string is stripping
> '0' from both left and right of both numbers. I thought it was far easier to
> convert it into an integer and reverse. Anyway I wasn't aware of string
> reversal shortcut - [::-1] ... thanx :)
>
> Following code performs in 0.50 seconds :
>
> import sys
>
> def rev(n) :
>     m = 0
>     while n > 0 :
>         r = n%10
>         m = m*10 + r
>         n = n/10
>     return m
>
> def solve(line) :
>     nums = line.split (' ')
>     a = int(nums[0].strip('0')[::-1])
>     b = int(nums[1].strip('0')[::-1])
>     return rev( a + b )
>
> if __name__ == '__main__' :
>     N = int(sys.stdin.readline())
>     lines = sys.stdin.readlines()
>     for i in xrange(N) :
>         print solve(lines[i])
>
>
> I will start working on psyco ... though not sure what is it ?
>
> Thanks again Kent.
>
> Cheers
> Aditya
>
> On 9/27/07, Kent Johnson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Aditya Lal wrote:
> >
> > > def rev(n) :
> > >     m = 0
> > >     while n > 0 :
> > >         m = m*10 + n%10
> > >         n = n/10
> > >     return m
> >
> > I would try reversing the numbers as strings. s[::-1] will reverse a
> > string s.
> >
> > > How do I improve the input reading or string parsing ? I know there
> > > should be a better way because the best program (at cost of memory)
> > > performs > 50% faster than mine. So he must have done something to
> > > improve input processing.
> >
> > The programs that use a lot of memory are using psyco.
> >
> > Kent
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Aditya
>
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