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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 17:30:26 +0100
Subject: Re: Splitting of string at an interval
From: Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com>
To: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On 8 April 2013 17:20, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

There's a whole competition about writing the smallest program which
outputs the song "99 bottles of beer":

http://codegolf.com/99-bottles-of-beer

Cheers,

-- 
Arnaud