silly idea - interesting problem

[Steven D. Majewski]

On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Stefan Antoni wrote:

> 
> i got a silly idea about a small script which takes to strings (lets say
> "test" and "dust") and mixes them to "tdeusstt".
> i tried to code it because i thought it would be easy, but now i cannot
> find out _how_ to do it ;)
> 
> i tried to "list()" the string and mix the items. but ...
> 
> Anybody has a hint or even a solution?

>>> import operator
>>> reduce( operator.__add__, map( operator.__add__, 'test', 'dust' ), '' )
'tdeusstt'

-- Steve