On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> Oh, it's not that bad! All you have to do is handle the edge case of an
> empty string:
>
> s[::len(s)-1 if s else True]
>
> *ducks and runs*
And the edge case of the one-character string. Also, it's been noted
that calling the built-in function len() is slow, so I propose
changing that.
s[::(sys.getsizeof("\N{MATHEMATICAL BOLD CAPITAL
L}"+s)-sys.getsizeof("\N{MATHEMATICAL BOLD CAPITAL E}\N{MATHEMATICAL
BOLD CAPITAL N}") or 4)//4]
Note the elegance of using the word LEN across two string literals
(because string literals are fast) as a means of clearly describing
what we are doing - an optimization of the built-in len() function.
ChrisA
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