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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:57:33 -0700
Subject: Re: Learn Python the Hardway exercise 11 question 4
From: geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:43 PM, eryksun () <eryksun@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, March 31, 2011 4:35:42 PM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> I was trolling, I know the reasons behind it. Anyway, most people
>> don't share code by email! (Actually, since you seem to be the author
>> of that page - could you address that particular point? I think it's
>> probably as big an issue as any of the others, to today's coders -
>> "code semantics get destroyed by forums/email/etc/etc/etc".)
>>
>> Solution: All emailed code should begin with
>> from __future__ import braces
>> And there you are, out of your difficulty at once!
>
> You could paste it as a base64 stream, such as:
>
>
>> ZGVmIHNwYW0oKToNCiAgICBwcmludCAiU3BhbSEg
>> TG92ZWx5IHNwYW0hIExvdmVseSBzcGFtISI=3D
>
>
> Then decode and exec:
>
> In [1]: import base64
>
> In [2]: %cpaste
> Pasting code; enter '--' alone on the line to stop.
> :code=3D"""> ZGVmIHNwYW0oKToNCiAgICBwcmludCAiU3BhbSEg
> :> TG92ZWx5IHNwYW0hIExvdmVseSBzcGFtISI=3D"""
> :--
>
> In [3]: print base64.b64decode(code)
> def spam():
> =A0 =A0print "Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!"
>
> In [4]: exec(base64.b64decode(code))
>
> In [5]: spam()
> Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!

I know it's tongue-in-cheek, but please, please, please don't do this.

Geremy Condra