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Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner

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On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:09 AM, gb <gb@cabiate.it> wrote:
> harrismh777 <harrismh777@charter.net> writes:
>
>> Seriously, these little one liners teach me more about the python
>> language in less time than [...]
>
> def f(x,n,w): return x if n==1 else\
>    (lambda x0=f(x[::2],n/2,w[::2]),\
>            x1=f(x[1::2],n/2,w[::2]): reduce(lambda a,b: a+b ,\
>                                      zip(*[(x0[k]+w[k]*x1[k],\
>                                             x0[k]-w[k]*x1[k])\
>                                             for k in range(n/2)])))()
>
> it was a joke of sort played on it.comp.lang.python

(Remind me how it is that Python code is more readable than line noise
or Perl code?)

What sort of parameters does this take? So far all I can figure out is
that n is an integer and x and w are sliceables, but I'm not sure
whether x and w should be strings or arrays.

ChrisA

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Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner harrismh777 <harrismh777@charter.net> - 2011-03-29 14:00 -0500
  Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner gb <gb@cabiate.it> - 2011-04-04 22:09 +0200
    Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-05 07:46 +1000
      Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-04-05 10:16 +1200
        Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-05 08:45 +1000
        Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2011-04-04 15:46 -0700
      Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Giacomo Boffi <giacomo.boffi@polimi.it> - 2011-04-05 07:36 +0200

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