This one is pretty useless, I know. I was trying to think up something to code to test out my fledgling Python knowledge back when I was first picking it up. There was a competition online to script something to output the lyrics to "99 bottles of beer on the wall" in the fewest lines possible. There was a category for fewest characters as well. I knew I wasn't good enough to enter such a competition, but I figured I'd try it and see what I could come up with.
Here's what I ended up doing:
def outputLine(x,v):
z = str(x) + " bottle" + v + " of beer on the wall, " + str(x) + " bottle" + v + " of beer. take one down pass it around, " + str(x-1) + " bottles of beer on the wall."
print z
def song():
boosh = range(1, 100)
boosh.reverse()
for x in boosh:
if x == 1:
v = ""
outputLine(x,v)
else:
v = "s"
outputLine(x,v)
x = x - 1
song()
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| works like a champ |
I know now, several shortcuts I could use to shorten it up a bit more, but it's interesting for me to see how I solved a problem a year ago and think about how I would do it now.
-newt
