Most SHAMEFUL one-liner:

Jeremy Moles jeremy at emperorlinux.com
Fri Dec 2 14:25:41 EST 2005


I was looking through some code of my today and noticed this little gem
I wrote a few days back that I had totally forgot about:

fill = [("%%-%ds\n" % (columns - 1)) % " " for i in range(yoffset - 2)]

...and then I went on to do:

"".join(fill)

Talk about using the wrong tool for the job... :(

All I needed was:

" " * (columns - 1) * (yoffset - 2)

Anyone else remember any shameful one-liners like this? :) I'm just
curious to see what kinda mistakes people make you think about a
solution WAY TO HARD... :)




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