python coding contest

[Tim Hochberg]

Shane Hathaway wrote:
> Paul McGuire wrote:
> 
>>"Paul McGuire" <ptmcg at austin.rr._bogus_.com> wrote in message
>>news:0v6sf.9742$9e.3250 at tornado.texas.rr.com...
>><snip>
>>
>>>Well *I'm* certainly looking forward to learning some new tricks!  My
>>>(non-cheat) version is a comparatively-portly 245, and no alternatives are
>>>popping into my head at the moment!
>>>
>>>-- Paul
>>>
>>>
>>
>>down to 2 lines, 229 characters
> 
> 
> I'm down to 133 characters (counted according to 'wc -c') on a single 
> line.  It contains about 11 whitespace characters (depending on what you 
> consider whitespace.)  It's way too tricky for my taste, but it's fun to 
> play anyway.  Has anyone done better so far?  Here's a hint on my 
> strategy: the code contains three large integers. :-)

I see now how three large integers could be useful, but the best I could 
do with that is 136 characters on 1-line. Yesterday that would have been 
great, but it's not so hot today.

> 
> Also, here's another cheat version.  (No, 7seg.com does not exist.)
> 
>    import urllib2
>    def seven_seg(x):return urllib2.urlopen('http://7seg.com/'+x).read()
> 
And another one from me as well.

class a:
  def __eq__(s,o):return 1
seven_seg=lambda i:a()

-tim