[python-sg] What do you think of this code?

[Martin]

Wow. This is the worst Python code I have ever seen...

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 9:10 PM, George Loo <majorgml at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi fellow Python programmers,
>
> this code to find duplicate files is quite complicated to read...
> Is this good coding style or was the coder trying to show off? :-)
>
> import sys
>
> check_path = (lambda filepath, hashes, p = sys.stdout.write:
>        (lambda hash = hashlib.sha1 (file (filepath).read ()).hexdigest ():
>                ((hash in hashes) and (p ('DUPLICATE FILE\n'
>                                          '   %s\n'
>                                          'of %s\n' % (filepath,
> hashes[hash])))
>                 or hashes.setdefault (hash, filepath)))())
>
> scan = (lambda dirpath, hashes = {}:
>                map (lambda (root, dirs, files):
>                        map (lambda filename: check_path (os.path.join
> (root, filename), hashes), files), os.walk (dirpath)))
>
> ((len (sys.argv) > 1) and scan (sys.argv[1]))
>
>
> Source:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/748675/finding-duplicate-files-and-removing-them
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