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From: Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 07:46:40 +0100
Subject: Re: Stupid ways to spell simple code
To: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On 30 June 2013 07:06, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> There's a bit of a discussion on python-ideas that includes a function
> that raises StopIteration. It inspired me to do something stupid, just
> to see how easily I could do it...
>
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Re: [Python-ideas] "Iteration stopping" syntax
>>>>> def stop():
>> ...     raise StopIteration
>
> Here's a much more insane way to spell that:
>
> stop = (lambda: 0 and (yield 1))().__next__
>
> So, here's a challenge: Come up with something really simple, and
> write an insanely complicated - yet perfectly valid - way to achieve
> the same thing. Bonus points for horribly abusing Python's clean
> syntax in the process.
>
> Go on, do your worst!

You'll have to excuse me -- I'm writing a library to do just that.
I'll be done in a few weeks.