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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 15:14:05 +1100
Subject: Re: I need algorithm for my task
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> wrote:
> def baseword(s):
>     """find shortest sequence which repeats to generate s"""
>     return s[0:["".join([s[0:x]for k in range(int(len(s)/x)+1)])[0:len
> (s)]for x in range(1,len(s)+1)].index(s)+1]

That's hardly a PEP-8 compliant line, but I can help out a bit.

return s[0:[(s[0:x]*(len(s)//x+1))[0:len(s)]for x in
range(1,len(s)+1)].index(s)+1]

That's still 83 characters without indentation, but it's close now.

I love the algorithm. Took me a bit of analysis (and inspection of
partial results) to understand what your code's doing, but it's
stupidly elegant and elegantly stupid.

ChrisA