[Tutor] Re: Ugly python one-liner !

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

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On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 10:59:30PM +0530, Prahlad Vaidyanathan wrote:

|     I was again playing around with the matrix module I have been
| working on recently, and I found I could write this absolutely perl-ish
| one-liner to compute the one-norm of the matrix.
|

import operator

|     def one_norm (self) :
|         """The sum of the elements in different rows of each column
|         is computed, and the maximum of these values is said to
|         be the one-norm of the Matrix.
|         """
          return max([reduce(operator.add,
|                     [abs(self[r,c]) for r in range(self.rows)])
|                         for c in range(self.columns)])


|     Between map(), reduce() and list comprehension, I have finally
| succeeded in making python look scary :-)

Yep.  But you don't need that lambda in there -- the operator module
already has an add function for just that purpose :-).  You also don't
need the backslashes -- python knows to continue because you haven't
close the parenthesis.

HAND,
-D

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