Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!rt.uk.eu.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.004 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'digest': 0.04; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'skip:p 60': 0.07; 'filename': 0.09; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'random': 0.14; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'red,': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'trying': 0.19; '>>>': 0.22; 'import': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'rid': 0.24; 'subject:Code': 0.24; 'url:moin': 0.24; "i've": 0.25; 'this:': 0.26; 'second': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header :In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'chris': 0.29; '[1]': 0.29; '[2]': 0.30; 'characters': 0.30; 'code': 0.31; 'lines': 0.31; 'url:wiki': 0.31; 'url:wikipedia': 0.31; 'another': 0.32; 'url:python': 0.33; 'monday,': 0.33; "who's": 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'passwords': 0.36; 'thanks': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'too': 0.37; 'implement': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'generating': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'skip:x 10': 0.40; 'read': 0.60; 'most': 0.60; "you've": 0.63; 'email addr:gmail.com': 0.63; 'total': 0.65; 'fun?': 0.68; 'emails,': 0.69; 'impressive,': 0.84; 'skip:p 80': 0.84; '2013': 0.98 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Code golf challenge: XKCD 936 passwords Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 08:48:17 +0100 References: <68365e43-498f-4ad2-bac3-6a02938159c7@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-147-188-13.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 37 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1381218515 news.xs4all.nl 15975 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:51040 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:56363 On 08/10/2013 07:48, sprucebondera@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, October 7, 2013 8:45:39 PM UTC-10, spruce...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Monday, October 7, 2013 8:17:21 PM UTC-10, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >>> Who's up for some fun? Implement an XKCD-936-compliant password >>> generator in Python 3, in less code than this: >>> print(*__import__("random").sample(open("/usr/share/dict/words").read().split("\n"),4)) >> >>> Second challenge: Use it for generating all your passwords :) >> >>> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_golf >>> [2] http://xkcd.com/936/ >> >>> ChrisA >> >> Well, here's a start: >> >> import random as r >> print(*r.sample(open("/usr/share/dict/words").readlines(),4)) >> Shaves off 6 characters. > > And if we were actually trying then that filename should just be "/w". Would get rid of another 19 chars. > Very impressive, you've saved a total of 25 characters on one line and added too many lines to count to your emails, which I've snipped. Please read and digest this https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython, thanks in anticipation. -- Roses are red, Violets are blue, Most poems rhyme, But this one doesn't. Mark Lawrence