very rare python expression

[=?GB2312?B?zPC5zw==?=]

Howdy everyone,

I saw a strange python code in pygame project. What does "while
not(x&528or x in l):" mean? Below code works in python2.5, so "x&528"
is not HTML strings.

# snake.py code:
import pygame as p,random
p.init()
q=p.display
T=16
b=q.set_mode([256]*2).fill
l=[]
d=a=x=1
c=p.event.get
while not(x&528or x in l):
l=l[a!=x:]+[x]
while a&528or a in l:a=random.randrange(512)
b(0)
[b(99,(o%T*T,o/32*T,T,T))for o in l+[a]]
q.flip()
p.time.wait(199)
for e in c(2):
v=e.key-272
n=((v&2)-1)*[1,32][v<3]
if-n-d and 0<v<5:d=n
c()
x=l[-1]+d
Best regards,

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ShenLei

[Paul Rubin]

"ðÏ" <li**************@gmail.comwrites:

I saw a strange python code in pygame project. What does "while
not(x&528or x in l):" mean? Below code works in python2.5, so "x&528"
is not HTML strings.

It parses as "x & 528 or x in l". Looks like it came from

http://www.pygame.org/project/833/

and is an attempt to squash the program to as few bytes as possible.

[Wojtek Walczak]

Dnia Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:39:27 +0800, =?GB2312?B?zPC5zw==?= napisa³(a):

Howdy everyone,

I saw a strange python code in pygame project. What does "while
not(x&528or x in l):" mean? Below code works in python2.5, so "x&528"
is not HTML strings.

It looks like a check if 528 flag is set. In this way you can set
more than one flag in signle variable:

>>flag1 = 1
flag2 = 2
flag3 = 4
flag4 = 8
flag5 = 10
flags_set = flag2 | flag4
flags_set & flag1

0

>>flags_set & flag2

2

>>flags_set & flag3

0

>>flags_set & flag4

8

>>flags_set & flag5

0
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Regards,
Wojtek Walczak,
http://www.stud.umk.pl/~wojtekwa/

[=?GB2312?B?zPC5zw==?=]

Oh, thank you very much. I did know that python can parse number '528'
and keyword 'or' without separator.

2008/8/12 Paul Rubin <"http://phr.cx"@nospam.invalid>:

"ðÏ" <li**************@gmail.comwrites:

>I saw a strange python code in pygame project. What does "while
not(x&528or x in l):" mean? Below code works in python2.5, so "x&528"
is not HTML strings.

It parses as "x & 528 or x in l". Looks like it came from

http://www.pygame.org/project/833/

and is an attempt to squash the program to as few bytes as possible.
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http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

[Edward A. Falk]

In article <7x************@ruckus.brouhaha.com>,
Paul Rubin <http://ph****@NOSPAM.invalidwrote:

>"ðÏ" <li**************@gmail.comwrites:

>I saw a strange python code in pygame project. What does "while
not(x&528or x in l):" mean? Below code works in python2.5, so "x&528"
is not HTML strings.

It parses as "x & 528 or x in l". Looks like it came from

http://www.pygame.org/project/833/

and is an attempt to squash the program to as few bytes as possible.

Sheesh. The 80's called; they want their floppy drives back.

Even with the whitespace restored, it's awful style.

--
-Ed Falk, fa**@despams.r.us.com
http://thespamdiaries.blogspot.com/

[Fredrik Lundh]

Edward A. Falk wrote:

>It parses as "x & 528 or x in l". Looks like it came from

http://www.pygame.org/project/833/

and is an attempt to squash the program to as few bytes as possible.

Sheesh. The 80's called; they want their floppy drives back.

Even with the whitespace restored, it's awful style.

complaints about style issues in code intentionally written to be as
short as possible? is this Digg, or what?

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