Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!newsfeed.x-privat.org!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.21.MISMATCH!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe09.iad.POSTED!c971ce29!not-for-mail From: David Monaghan Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Coolest Python recipe of all time Message-ID: <018ur6da31iv7us9gm4dpgl7tfl0i6snb2@4ax.com> References: <69c1813d-1a9a-4686-9768-8ec1910a45f8@d19g2000prh.googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 22 X-Complaints-To: abuse@teranews.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 21:45:22 UTC Organization: TeraNews.com Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 22:45:34 +0100 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:4501 On Mon, 2 May 2011 14:58:50 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: >On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 2:48 PM, David Monaghan > wrote: >> On Mon, 2 May 2011 10:33:31 -0700 (PDT), Raymond Hettinger >> wrote: >> >>>I think it is time to give some visibility to some of the instructive >>>and very cool recipes in ActiveState's python cookbook. >>> >>>My vote for the coolest recipe of all time is: >>> >>>    http://code.activestate.com/recipes/365013-linear-equations-solver-in-3-lines/ >> >> Really cool, but wrong. x = 3234.667, not 3236.0 > >Nope, I get 3236. Maybe you made a mistake somewhere. Oops. What a plonker .Three times I checked and got the same result each time. Now it works fine. Sorry! DaveM