Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.python > #50177 > unrolled thread

Re: homework + obfuscation ... this might work ...

Back to article view | Back to comp.lang.python

This discussion starts older than the indexed window; earlier articles aren't shown. The article labeled Started by below is the oldest one visible, not the original post.

Contents

  Re: homework + obfuscation ... this might work ... Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-07-08 22:35 +0100

#50177 — Re: homework + obfuscation ... this might work ...

On 8 July 2013 21:43, Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> wrote:
> I have an idea.  Take the threads where students ask the list to do
> their homework for them (but don't have the cojones to admit that's
> what they are doing), and merge them with the obfuscated Python idea.
> A group of people could come up with the solution off-list, then
> answer the poster's original question (no fair asking them to revise
> their poorly specified requirements) with a very obfuscated answer
> on-list.  I think it would be interesting to be a fly on the wall when
> they explain how their programs work to their professors, especially
> if they have little easter eggs embedded in them.
>
> :-)
>
> Perhaps we could start with the 10 random even numbers?  I'll start:

You're doing it wrong:

def getRandomNumbers() -> [int]:
    return [4]*10;  # chosen by fair dice roll
                    # guaranteed to be random

#!/too/famous/to_need/a.reference

[toc] | [standalone]

Back to top | Article view | comp.lang.python

csiph-web