Code golf challenge: XKCD 936 passwords

Denis McMahon denismfmcmahon at gmail.com
Tue Oct 8 11:36:50 EDT 2013


On Tue, 08 Oct 2013 08:33:48 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:

> In article <mailman.830.1381215134.18130.python-list at python.org>,
>  Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 5:48 PM,  <sprucebondera at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > And if we were actually trying then that filename should just be
>> > "/w".
>> > Would get rid of another 19 chars.
>> 
>> I'm working this on the assumption that the dictionary file already
>> exists (that's where it is on my Debian Linux systems, for instance)
>> and shouldn't be moved :)

> In the old days, it used to be /usr/dict/words.  Port Python to v6, and
> save another 6 characters :-)

Doesn't matter where it is, a link to it exists at "/w" now ;)

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Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon at gmail.com



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