Announcement: Obfuscated Python competition

[Terry Reedy]

"Graham Nicholls" <graham at rockcons.co.uk> wrote in message
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> 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.

I don't know that there has been a formal contest, but I have already
seen prize-winning code.  The main trick is to turn multiple lines of
nice, readable code into one gigantic lambda expression with nested
lambdas with nested lambas ... as deep as needed.

> Prize : One of my Perl books - lets see: "Perl in a Nuthouse" looks
good.

No thanks ;-)

Terry J. Reedy