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Bryce
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Oh man, I'm tucking this gem away for a rainy day. Had no idea it was that easy to represent numbers of different bases.
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First-chejiobek3
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Would this also work on an item that starts with a letter, but has an imbedded or trailing digit in it (i.e. with0ld)? It seems like .isalpha() would be a more thorough way of checking each item, unless there's something I'm overlooking?
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Nice, compact code! Does it account for and/or avoid occupying past positions? On my first take at understanding it, it appears the start position (or any other open position besides the finish) can be visited more than one time. Not a criticism, I'm just curious. I'm just reminded of times when I c
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Thanks for the informative explanations. Archiving this publication in my personal dictionary for future reference.
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Just dissected it. Wasn't familiar with .format, format(), or ord(). Very impressive and powerful. Still a little confused about the logic behind {0:02}.format(int(i)). Is it as simple as the second 0 specifying a spacer and the 2 specifying how long the formatted result should be? the first 0 appea
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This is what I wanted to do! I can't twist my mind in sequential loops as well as you can, though. Thanks for making it so readable.
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First-makoto_yamagata
Looks very cool. Uses bit logic? A novice like me could benefit greatly from more documentation here, as I don't fully understand what's going on. I'll play around with it later. Thanks for publishing.
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short and clear-StefanPochmann
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Forgive my naivete, but what does zip-split get you that [(1000,'M'), (900,'CM'), (500,'D'), (400,'CD'), (100,'C'), (90,'XC'), (50,'L'), (40,'XL'), (10,'X'), (9,'IX'), (5,'V'), (4,'IV'), (1,'I')] doesn't? I like the vertical organization of having the M below 1000...is that it?
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