[Chicago] Can you write Perl in Python?

[Ian Bicking]

Martin Maney wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 11:46:10PM -0600, Edward S. Marshall wrote:
> 
>>Bah, I'm obviously not a very good Perl programmer, then. 233 characters
>>is all I could make myself get it down to tonight, without my head
>>exploding, without resorting to map/lambda, and without representing the
>>template as a set of numbers. It's still pretty readable; maybe I'll
>>take a peek at it tomorrow.
> 
> 
> Came back to make sure I had an offering ready to go (the web site
> opens at 8:00 tomorrow morning).  Found I'd forgotten one or two ugly
> little tweaks (some things make it just too hard to work on the code,
> so I was putting them off) and found a spare byte somewhere.  138
> bytes, one line. no maps or lambdas at all - had some once, list
> comprehensions saved bytes!  I have an idea for a different way of
> encoding the table(s) that might be a little shorter overall.  Or not. 
> Maybe I'll try it tomorrow, or maybe I'll do something worthwhile
> instead.

List comprehension... I knew I was forgetting some entire language 
feature somewhere.  Of course, generator comprehension is just like list 
comprehensions but without the [], so there might be some characters to 
be saved there as well.

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