A rather unpythonic way of doing things

[Peter Corbett]

One of my friends has recently taken up Python, and was griping a bit
about the language (it's too "prescriptive" for his tastes). In
particular, he didn't like the way that Python expressions were a bit
crippled. So I delved a bit into the language, and found some sources
of syntactic sugar that I could use, and this is the result:

http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/yvfc.html

Peter

--
A frightful hobgoblin is stalking throughout Europe.
- The Communist Manifesto, 1st English Edition

[Richie Hindle]

[Peter]

http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/yvfc.html

Beautiful! Greenspun's Tenth Rule[1] performed before your very eyes! (Not
quite, because you started with Python so you were already half way there.
And yours probably isn't buggy. 8-)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun's_Tenth_Rule

--
Richie Hindle
ri****@entrian.com

[Paul Rubin]

Peter Corbett <pc******@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/yvfc.html

Madness! I love it.

[Jeff Schwab]

Peter Corbett wrote:

One of my friends has recently taken up Python, and was griping a bit
about the language (it's too "prescriptive" for his tastes). In
particular, he didn't like the way that Python expressions were a bit
crippled. So I delved a bit into the language, and found some sources
of syntactic sugar that I could use, and this is the result:

http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/yvfc.html

Yuma Valley Agricultural Center?
Yaak Valley Forest Council?

[Richie Hindle]

[Peter]

http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/yvfc.html
[Jeff] Yuma Valley Agricultural Center?
Yaak Valley Forest Council?

I went through the same process. My guess is "Yes, Very F'ing Clever."
Peter?

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Richie Hindle
ri****@entrian.com

[Peter Corbett]

Richie Hindle <ri****@entrian.com> writes:

[Peter]

http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/yvfc.html

[Jeff]

Yuma Valley Agricultural Center?
Yaak Valley Forest Council?

I went through the same process. My guess is "Yes, Very F'ing Clever."
Peter?

You're all thinking about it the wrong way (he says, being cryptic).

Peter

--
A frightful hobgoblin is stalking throughout Europe.
- The Communist Manifesto, 1st English Edition

[fraca7]

Richie Hindle a écrit :

[Peter]

http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/yvfc.html

[Jeff]

Yuma Valley Agricultural Center?
Yaak Valley Forest Council?

I went through the same process. My guess is "Yes, Very F'ing Clever."
Peter?

print ''.join(map(lambda x: chr((((ord(x) - ord('a')) + 13) % 26) +
ord('a')), 'yvfc'))

:)

[Jeff Schwab]

fraca7 wrote:

Richie Hindle a écrit :

[Peter]

http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/yvfc.html

[Jeff]

Yuma Valley Agricultural Center?
Yaak Valley Forest Council?

I went through the same process. My guess is "Yes, Very F'ing Clever."
Peter?

print ''.join(map(lambda x: chr((((ord(x) - ord('a')) + 13) % 26) +
ord('a')), 'yvfc'))

:)

LOL. Thank you!

[Michael Ekstrand]

On Thursday 29 September 2005 04:53, Peter Corbett wrote:

One of my friends has recently taken up Python, and was griping a bit
about the language (it's too "prescriptive" for his tastes). In
particular, he didn't like the way that Python expressions were a bit
crippled. So I delved a bit into the language, and found some sources
of syntactic sugar that I could use, and this is the result:

http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/yvfc.html

Umm, TMTOWTDI? As uniform as Python is, it still is flexible...

Brilliant. Simply brilliant.

-Michael

[Richie Hindle]

[Peter]

http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/yvfc.html
[fraca7] print ''.join(map(lambda x: chr((((ord(x) - ord('a')) + 13) % 26) +
ord('a')), 'yvfc'))

Ah! Or more easily, Edit / Apply ROT13. Thanks!

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Richie Hindle
ri****@entrian.com

[Rocco Moretti]

fraca7 wrote:

Richie Hindle a écrit :

[Peter]

http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/yvfc.html

[Jeff]

Yuma Valley Agricultural Center?
Yaak Valley Forest Council?

I went through the same process. My guess is "Yes, Very F'ing Clever."
Peter?

print ''.join(map(lambda x: chr((((ord(x) - ord('a')) + 13) % 26) +
ord('a')), 'yvfc'))

Less pythonic:

__import__('sys').stdout.write(''.join(map(lambda x: chr((((ord(x) -
ord('a')) + 13) % 26) + ord('a')), 'yvfc'))

More Pythonic:

print 'yvfc'.decode('rot13')

[Fredrik Lundh]

"fraca7" wrote:

print ''.join(map(lambda x: chr((((ord(x) - ord('a')) + 13) % 26) + ord('a')), 'yvfc'))

that's spelled

print "yvfc".decode("rot-13")

or, if you prefer,

print "yvfc".encode("rot-13")

, in contemporary python.

</F>

[Simon Brunning]

On 9/29/05, Fredrik Lundh <fr*****@pythonware.com> wrote:

"fraca7" wrote:

print ''.join(map(lambda x: chr((((ord(x) - ord('a')) + 13) % 26) + ord('a')), 'yvfc'))

that's spelled

print "yvfc".decode("rot-13")

or, if you prefer,

print "yvfc".encode("rot-13")

, in contemporary python.

I'm not sure that being more comprehensible is considered a virtue in
this thread, /F. ;-)

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Cheers,
Simon B,
si***@brunningonline.net,
http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/

[Tom Anderson]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Peter Corbett wrote:

One of my friends has recently taken up Python, and was griping a bit
about the language (it's too "prescriptive" for his tastes). In
particular, he didn't like the way that Python expressions were a bit
crippled. So I delved a bit into the language, and found some sources of
syntactic sugar that I could use, and this is the result:

http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/yvfc.html

It's this sort of thing that makes it clear beyond all shadow of a doubt
that Cambridge should be razed to the ground.

Keep up the good work.

tom

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