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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 02:20:17 +1000
Subject: Re: Splitting of string at an interval
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On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> I can't help point out, however, that if your initial implementation is to have your code return a constant, it's pretty likely to be an optimum solution in both time and space :-)

Likely, but not certain.

# 1
def fifty_stars():
  return "**************************************************"

# 2
fifty_stars=lambda "*"*50

Okay, that's just getting 2AM stupid now. :)

ChrisA