python coding contest

[Scott David Daniels]

Remi Villatel wrote:
> Tim Hochberg wrote:
> 
>>> I am currently at 39 bytes following the requirements and the 
>>> principle given above (my module passes the test). Anyone able to 
>>> beat that?
> 
>> Wow! It'll be interesting to see how to do that. The obvious way gives 
>> 53 bytes. Hmmm, I'll have to see what can be done...
> 
> 39 bytes... 53 bytes... It gives me the impression to follow a jet plane 
> with a bike with my 179 bytes!
> 
> There isn't a single superfluous byte. My code is so compressed that the 
> syntactic colorizer can't cope any more.
> 
> I definitively need a new algorythm. <g>
> 
And I am sadly stuck at 169.  Not even spitting distance from 149 (which
sounds like a non-cheat version).

--Scott David Daniels
scott.daniels at acm.org