python coding contest

[Duncan Booth]

Tim Hochberg wrote:

> py pan wrote:
>> When you guys say 127~150 characters, did you guys mean
>> usinging test_vectors.py in some way? Or there's no import at all?
>> 
> 
> No import at all. The shortest solution reported so far is 131 
> characters. Getting down to 127 is just a guess as to where the lower 
> bound is likely to be.

Sorry about the 131, I had a spurious whitespace character so it should 
have been 130.

> The data is then extracted using some recipe 
> involving shifts and &s.

My 130 character solution has a shift and an &. My 133 character solution 
didn't. I feel sure that 130 isn't the limit, my guess would be that 127 or 
128 ought to be possible.