ICFP 2001 contest - Python team, anyone?

[Nick Perkins]

..reading contest rules...
so, we would have to write for Python 1.52??
..and this is for a functional programming contest?

2.1 would be better, with nested scopes and list comprehensions, etc.


"Gerhard Häring" <gerhard.nospam at bigfoot.de> wrote in message
news:slrn9k9hbd.8uh.gerhard.nospam at lilith.hqd-internal...
> The International Functional Programming Contest was announced. I'd like
to
> join this year. If you are a Python hacker and want to have all the fun
and
> glory, please contact me :-)
>
> http://cristal.inria.fr/ICFP2001/prog-contest/
>
> """
> On Thursday, July 26, 2001 at 15:00 UTC (see this page to convert to your
time
> zone), a challenge task will be posted on the Internet. It will also be
sent by
> mail to the contest mailing list.
>
> Teams will have 72 hours to implement a program to perform this task and
submit
> this program to the contest judges.
> """
>
> (Im not an ubercoder, I just want to have fun)
>
> Gerhard
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> reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda
x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))