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Re: Clever hack or code abomination?

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On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Dude, it was deliberately obfuscated code. I even named the function
> "obfuscated_prefixes". I thought that would have been a hint <wink>
>
> It's kinda scary that of all the sins against readability committed in my
> function, including isinstance(type(c), type(type)) which I was
> particularly proud of, the only criticism you came up with was that
> chr(45) is hard to read. I'm impressed <grins like a mad thing>

Heh! I know it was obfuscated, and that's why I didn't bother
mentioning the obvious.

> And besides, given how rare such byte-manipulations on ASCII characters
> are in Python, it would be a shame to lose the ability to use '' and ""
> for strings just to avoid calling ord and chr functions.

Agreed. That flexibility is a _huge_ advantage. Definitely not worth
changing anything.

ChrisA

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Clever hack or code abomination? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-11-30 22:15 -0500
  Re: Clever hack or code abomination? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-12-01 03:38 +0000
  Re: Clever hack or code abomination? Matt Joiner <anacrolix@gmail.com> - 2011-12-01 14:49 +1100
  Re: Clever hack or code abomination? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-12-01 19:21 +1100
    Re: Clever hack or code abomination? John Ladasky <ladasky@my-deja.com> - 2011-12-06 11:19 -0800
  Re: Clever hack or code abomination? Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com> - 2011-12-01 08:35 +0000
  Re: Clever hack or code abomination? Vito 'ZeD' De Tullio <zak.mc.kraken@libero.it> - 2011-12-01 21:35 +0100
  Re: Clever hack or code abomination? "Martin P. Hellwig" <martin.hellwig@gmail.com> - 2011-12-01 21:13 +0000
    Re: Clever hack or code abomination? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-12-02 00:15 +0000
      Re: Clever hack or code abomination? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-12-02 13:07 +1100
        Re: Clever hack or code abomination? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-12-02 05:34 +0000
          Re: Clever hack or code abomination? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-12-02 17:02 +1100
            Re: Clever hack or code abomination? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-12-02 08:54 +0000
              Re: Clever hack or code abomination? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-12-02 20:16 +1100
  Re: Clever hack or code abomination? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-12-01 21:49 -0500
  Re: Clever hack or code abomination? Matt Joiner <anacrolix@gmail.com> - 2011-12-02 16:11 +1100
  Re: Clever hack or code abomination? Chris Hulan <chris.hulan@gmail.com> - 2011-12-02 09:20 -0800

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