Maybe a stupid idea

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On 31 Dec 2003 09:49:55 -0800, rumours say that sebb at linuxcult.com
(sebb) might have written:

>Here is a simple example :
>
>b=0
>
>while b < 50:
>    b+=1
>    print "*" * b
>
>while b > 0:
>    b-= 1
>    print "*" * b
>
>It takes two while blocks to do a cycle.

Another way to do the above in a single block:

for a in xrange(-49, 50):
	b= 50-abs(a)
	print "*" * b

or the more cryptic (which you really should ignore):

from itertools import imap
for a in imap(50 .__sub__, imap(abs, xrange(-49, 50))):
	print "*" * b

Note that significant space between "50" and "." :)
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