Hi there,
I've recently tried to translate some Perl code into Python - code is below. Is there a more Pythonic form? Also, is there a good reason why there are plans to remove lambda from the language? yrs complements-of-the-season-ly... ==== START OF CODE ## 2005-04-01 - TSO ## with apologies to Erudil import sys,math;[ vars() .__setitem__( "ham", lambda(spam):(""). join([chr(( spam/144**i)%(02*72)) for(i)in xrange( int(math.log(spam**0.5, 12)+1))])),[(lambda* spam:globals().update({} .__class__([spam])))( ham(spam),eval(ham(__spam)) )for(spam,__spam)in[ (47631497714,0x3A305499C7D37), (47159984399, 2337674),(327499859,2336509),(8901 +34553*10000, 2402179),(6303405375459,2295612),(11+ 7540504603011, 303839094),(95,2295612),(7540504603011, 303839094),(95,0x16241495E6D60314676F55F45E4D3F906),(216* 10529,0x1053924DE35309345),(0x6DB401B64DC,0x262efd)]]and(_) (ham(231280211),[bacon(spam,ham(0x65936781522))()for(spam)in crispy(bacon(bacon((bacon(eggs,ham(0x1051936D9600B6F4F)))(0) ,ham(6296985467094)),ham(390129778476214073077203)))]+[bacon( ham(32),ham(48473858995))()]),_(ham(110),(lovely)(Spam(cheese ,SPAM))),_(ham(231280211),[[int((lambda spam:bacon(bacon(ham (32),ham(48473858995))(),ham(330651610))([ham(6961)[bacon(( spam),ham(+906698009388057))()]for(spam)in(spam)]))(spam+ spam_),2)for(spam,spam_)in(lambda(spam):[(spam)for(spam) in(_spam)(spam[::2],spam[1::2])])(list(_spam(*spam)))] for(spam) in(lambda(spam):list(_spam(spam[::2],spam [1::2])))([(spam+ham (32)*n)[:n]for( spam)in(SPAM) ])])or(Spam)(( bacon)( bacon(eggs,ham (7233055643059 )),ham(224343 + 11402701*10** 6+ 30804988*10** 14) ),[(spam)for spam in(_spam)(*[ (ham( 668732698837 )%(spam_ ,_spam),ham( 668732698 *1000+837)%( _spam,spam_ ))for(_spam, spam_)in(_spam) (*Spam(lambda (spam_,_spam): [bacon(bacon (ham(32),ham( 0xB494463B3) )(),ham(610+ 330651000))( [_spam[spam]for(spam)in(spam)[::spam_ *-2+1]])for(spam)in(SPAM)],Ham([ham (0x40BA541813CECF0323A994C40AA00) ,ham(412853488783846916352+ 20980637114201*10**21 )])))])])] == END OF CODE -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list