python coding contest

[Duncan Booth]

Tim Hochberg wrote:

> taroso at gmail.com wrote:
>> Currently I'm on 149 characters in <urgh> one line - 128 without
>> spaces/newlines.  (it'd be three characters shorter if it didn't have
>> to end with a "\n")
> 
> 
> It'll be interesting to see what the short 1-line answers look like. I 
> have a hard time seeing how that's done. It'll especially be interesting 
> to see  if we're all using similar tricks or if the multiline attemps 
> take a distinctly different tack than the single line attempts.
> 
> Currently, I'm down to 137 characters now in 6 lines. There's very 
> little left to trim at this point, so I don't know that I'll be able to 
> knock it down any further using my current approach. And since I don't 
> have any other approaches in the wings, I may be about washed up.
> 
> 
I think my main interest will be to see what different algorithms are 
successful. I suspect I may have chosen the wrong approach to start with 
since I stuck at 150 characters (1 line, no extraneous whitespace), but 
then I started again with a different algorithm and I'm down to one line of 
137 characters but nowhere obvious to go from there...