Dear Guru, I have added def and it doesnt work Sincerly, F

[Gerhard Häring]

phil hunt wrote in comp.lang.python:
> On 15 Mar 2002 01:12:23 GMT, Gerhard Häring <gerhard at bigfoot.de> wrote:
>>Oscar wrote in comp.lang.python:
>>> I have added 
>>> 
>>> def joinsplit = (join(split(lines, '"'), ' '))
>>>         return joinsplit
>>
>>No wonder this doesn't work, as you've apparently haven't made very
>>much effort to understand what you're doing here.
>>
>>Sorry to be so blunt, but you can't write software just by guessing
>>about the syntax. 
> 
> Really? I do some of the time, when I don't remember it and can't be 
> bothered to look in the manual.

Me too, mostly by trying stuff out at Python prompt, for instance if I
forgot the semantics of slicing again.

> The surprising thing is, the rest of his defs are OK.

Not surprising: somebody else wrote that code.

Gerhard
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reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))