Clever hack or code abomination?

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> for suffix in [''] + [str(i) for i in xrange(-1, -20, -1)]:
>
> It generates the right sequence of strings.  But, if you came upon that
> code, would it make sense to you, or would you spend half the afternoon
> trying to figure out what it did and the other half of the afternoon
> ranting about the deranged lunatic who wrote it?

That's a self-contained piece of code.If I came upon it, I'd probably
copy and paste it to IDLE, see what it comes up with, and proceed from
there. Deranged you may be, but so long as code can be dropped into an
interactive interpreter, it's fine.

ChrisA