python coding contest

[Michael Spencer]

Claudio Grondi wrote:
> ...I analysed the outcome of it and have
> come to the conclusion, that there were two major factors which 
> contributed to squeezing of code:
> 
>    (1). usage of available variants for coding of the same thing
>    (2). sqeezing the size of used numeric and string literals
> 
...not only squeezing the size of the literals, but the combined size of the 
compressed data and the code to expand it.  In this respect it turned out to be 
a surprisingly rewarding challenge, and a nice reinforcement of the Pythonic 
mantra of seeking performance gains by optimizing algorithms.

Michael