lambdak: multi-line lambda implementation in native Python

alister alister.nospam.ware at ntlworld.com
Sat Jan 17 13:30:12 EST 2015


On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 21:33:19 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Gregory Ewing wrote:
> 
>> Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>> Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>:
>>> 
>>>>If those are 24-bit RGB pixels, you could encode 3 characters in each
>>>>pixel.
>>> 
>>> Not since Python3. Characters are Unicode now so you'll need to
>>> dedicate a pixel for each character.
>> 
>> Depends on which characters you want. With the Flexible Chromatic
>> Representation, it could be anything from 1 to 3.
> 
> Subpixel rendering is 5% slower than full pixel rendering, so it is
> provably mathematically impossible to print Unicode characters.

:-)



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