Announcement: Obfuscated Python competition

Mel Wilson mwilson at the-wire.com
Tue May 20 12:44:38 EDT 2003


In article <b68f71a7.0305200251.303cff89 at posting.google.com>,
alan_salmoni at yahoo.com (Alan James Salmoni) wrote:
>Graham Nicholls <graham at rockcons.co.uk> wrote in message news:<zfaya.344$Ag1.275 at news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk>...
>> I reckon its possible to write bad code in any language.  So if it hasn't
>> been done already, how about an obfuscated Python competition.
>> Prize : One of my Perl books - lets see: "Perl in a Nuthouse" looks good.

>Hmm - surely a good book on Python might be more in order?! ;) And
>like some of the other posters suggested, I could see lambda making
>frequen appearances in such a contest...

   Anybody who can produce obfuscated Python already knows
too much.  Need to get their mind off it.

        Regards.        Mel.




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