Stupid ways to spell simple code

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sun Jun 30 02:06:35 EDT 2013


There's a bit of a discussion on python-ideas that includes a function
that raises StopIteration. It inspired me to do something stupid, just
to see how easily I could do it...

On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
Re: [Python-ideas] "Iteration stopping" syntax
>>>> def stop():
> ...     raise StopIteration

Here's a much more insane way to spell that:

stop = (lambda: 0 and (yield 1))().__next__

So, here's a challenge: Come up with something really simple, and
write an insanely complicated - yet perfectly valid - way to achieve
the same thing. Bonus points for horribly abusing Python's clean
syntax in the process.

Go on, do your worst!

ChrisA



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