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Re: Stupid ways to spell simple code

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On Sunday, June 30, 2013 8:06:35 AM UTC+2, Chris Angelico wrote:
> There's a bit of a discussion on python-ideas that includes a function
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> that raises StopIteration. It inspired me to do something stupid, just
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> to see how easily I could do it...
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> On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Re: [Python-ideas] "Iteration stopping" syntax
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> >>>> def stop():
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> > ...     raise StopIteration
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> 
> Here's a much more insane way to spell that:
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> stop = (lambda: 0 and (yield 1))().__next__
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> So, here's a challenge: Come up with something really simple, and
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> write an insanely complicated - yet perfectly valid - way to achieve
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> the same thing. Bonus points for horribly abusing Python's clean
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> syntax in the process.
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> Go on, do your worst!
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> 
> 
> ChrisA

Here's a way to count items in a string.

def count(string, x):
    return len(''.join(string)) - len(''.join(string).replace(x, '')) / len(x)

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Stupid ways to spell simple code Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-30 16:06 +1000
  Re: Stupid ways to spell simple code Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-06-30 07:58 -0700
    Re: Stupid ways to spell simple code Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-06-30 16:08 +0100
    Re: Stupid ways to spell simple code Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-01 01:20 +1000
    Re: Stupid ways to spell simple code Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-06-30 11:26 -0600
  Re: Stupid ways to spell simple code Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-30 17:36 +0000
    Re: Stupid ways to spell simple code Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-06-30 13:44 -0400
    Re: Stupid ways to spell simple code Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-06-30 22:52 +0100
  Re: Stupid ways to spell simple code Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-07-01 12:59 +0000
    Re: Stupid ways to spell simple code Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-01 23:14 +1000
    Re: Stupid ways to spell simple code Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-07-01 17:30 +0100
    Re: Stupid ways to spell simple code Marcin Szamotulski <mszamot@gmail.com> - 2013-07-01 20:36 +0100
      Re: Stupid ways to spell simple code Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-07-01 22:09 +0000
        Re: Stupid ways to spell simple code 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@gmail.com> - 2013-07-01 21:16 -0700
        Re: Stupid ways to spell simple code Marcin Szamotulski <mszamot@gmail.com> - 2013-07-02 07:22 +0100
    Re: Stupid ways to spell simple code Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-02 02:32 +1000
  Re: Stupid ways to spell simple code Russel Walker <russ.pobox@gmail.com> - 2013-07-02 00:33 -0700

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