A curious bit of code...

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Thu Feb 13 16:01:15 EST 2014


On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Emile van Sebille <emile at fenx.com> wrote:
> On 2/13/2014 11:59 AM, Zachary Ware wrote:
>>
>> In a fit of curiosity, I did some timings:
>
>
> Snip of lots of TMTOWTDT/TIMTOWTDI/whatever... timed examples :)
>
> But I didn't see this one:
>
> s[::len(s)-1]

.... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGGGHHHH!

Really, I actually did pause, double-take, and then scream under my
breath, when I saw that. Yes, it works. But please, if you EVER do
this, save me the trouble and just submit your code to thedailywtf.com
straight away!

ChrisA



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