In article <51d06cb6$0$29999$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 16:06:35 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > So, here's a challenge: Come up with something really simple, and write > > an insanely complicated - yet perfectly valid - way to achieve the same > > thing. Bonus points for horribly abusing Python's clean syntax in the > > process. > > Here's a trivially stupid way to find the length of an iterable: > > sum(1 for obj in iterable) That's how you would do it in a map-reduce environment :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
