m-sabra a='Happy Birtday' b='to you' print(a,b,',\n',a,b,',\n',a,'dear name!\n',a,b,'.') 81 char python
NuclearVision m0ei wrote69 characters so far. a='to you,';print"Happy Birthday %s\n"*4%(a,a,'dear name!','to you.') Nice, I was thinking of similar stuff but i could not get the *4 to work...
arithma @raja: Your answer inserts an extra newline at the beginning. ---Edit My bad it doesn't. @m0ei: Your answer inserts an extra newline at the end.
NuclearVision arithma wrote@raja: Your answer inserts an extra newline at the beginning. ---Edit My bad it doesn't. @m0ei: Your answer inserts an extra newline at the end. What if it does? The problem was to print those lines as seen and it was accomplished am I missing something? It could look something like thisa='to you,\n';print"Happy Birthday %s"*4%(a,a,'dear name!\n','to you.')
xterm NuclearVision wrote What if it does? The problem was to print those lines as seen and it was accomplished am I missing something? >>> expected = 'something' >>> got = 'something\n' >>> assert expected == got Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AssertionError
arithma NuclearVision wrotearithma wrote@raja: Your answer inserts an extra newline at the beginning. ---Edit My bad it doesn't. @m0ei: Your answer inserts an extra newline at the end. What if it does? The problem was to print those lines as seen and it was accomplished am I missing something? It could look something like thisa='to you,\n';print"Happy Birthday %s"*4%(a,a,'dear name!\n','to you.') Exactly. Now it's 72 characters. This game is about characters. Anyway, who cares, we're just making the game harder for each other for fun.