I need algorithm for my task

[Denis McMahon]

On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 03:36:40 +0000, Denis McMahon wrote:

> On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 18:49:01 +0000, MRAB wrote:
> 
>> It doesn't work for the final example or "barbaz".
> 
> Oh, and we really need a private "python homework answers" list where we
> can discuss the most pythonic solution we can think of for all these
> homework / coursework questions without showing the solutions to the
> students.

> I'm quite proud of a 2 line solution to the third algorithm that I
> implemented, although it might be considered as somewhat obfuscated code
> by some. ;)

Even prouder of the 1 liner!

In fact I'm going to post it, because I think any student who can walk 
his instructor through how my one-liner works deserves the marks. Of 
course, any student who presents this as a solution and is unable to walk 
their instructor through it should be failed for stupidity and plagiarism!

t = ["pythonpythonpyth", "DOLORIUMD", "HELLOLHELLO", "thewordword", 
"barbaz", "dibdibdobdibdibdob"]

def baseword(s):
    """find shortest sequence which repeats to generate s"""
    return s[0:["".join([s[0:x]for k in range(int(len(s)/x)+1)])[0:len
(s)]for x in range(1,len(s)+1)].index(s)+1]

for w in t:

    print(baseword(w))

p.s. I really want to be in the room when the instructor asks this 
student to come up in front of the class and explain how his solution 
works!

-- 
Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon at gmail.com