[Chicago] Can you write Perl in Python?

[Martin Maney]

On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 05:06:25PM -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
> *barely* better at compression than zlib is.  Hmm... after using map
> and lambda I can get it down to 155, 153 compressed (two characters of
> compression, w00t!).   I'm totally stumped on the last 15 characters,
> though.

No map, no lambda, 154 uncompressed.  Hmmm, I suppose I could save two
or three bytes if I use a raw string literal there and embed the actual
control code...

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