String arithmetic creative solution for Fizz Buzz by nickie - python coding challenges

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String arithmetic solution in Creative category for Fizz Buzz by nickie

checkio=lambda n:("Fizz "*(1-n%3)+"Buzz "*(1-n%5))[:-1]or str(n)

Feb. 20, 2014

Comments:

veky on Feb. 20, 2014, 6:36 p.m.
Not really puzzling if you know that str times negative is "", but still cool. :-)

nickie on Feb. 20, 2014, 6:39 p.m.
I trust nothing about Python will puzzle you anymore, my friend... :-)

veky on Feb. 20, 2014, 6:52 p.m.
yeah, the game is over for me. Maybe in Py4... :-D

ThomasHicks on Feb. 27, 2014, 8:42 p.m.
Clever! I didn't know strings could be manipulated that way.

xiongbiao on May 19, 2014, 2:52 p.m.
Wow, cool

jcwillian on May 24, 2014, 10:48 p.m.
nice

rhemon on July 6, 2014, 4:41 p.m.
cool

nptwz on Aug. 14, 2014, 4:25 p.m.
cool

jamestotle on Sept. 2, 2014, 7:20 a.m.
learn it,great

smjefferson602 on Sept. 27, 2014, 4:40 p.m.
Nice, I really need to keep studying Python!

EthyBOX on Jan. 27, 2015, 8:38 a.m.
Wow, impressive way to resolve this story !

mlb00 on March 16, 2015, 8:39 p.m.
Very cool solution! Explanation about the ending whitespace removal here for those like me who didn't understand what the [:-1] did: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/663171/is-there-a-way-to-substring-a-string-in-python">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/663171/is-there-a-way-to-substring-a-string-in-python</a>

leggewie on June 12, 2021, 3:37 p.m.
I knew about slicing, but that -1 is still a clever approach for this particular challenge to drop a whitespace at the end

StefanPochmann on April 24, 2015, 4:48 a.m.
I finally <a href="http://www.checkio.org/mission/fizz-buzz/publications/StefanPochmann/python-27/shortest-52-kill-me-now/">beat you</a>... omg that was hard work. Thanks for the motivation :-)

totee19 on Oct. 7, 2015, 1:23 a.m.
Amazing!!

han97 on Aug. 13, 2016, 12:04 p.m.
Cool solution

transistor on Sept. 12, 2016, 3:45 p.m.
Quite crazy :)

dnafication on Sept. 22, 2016, 6:42 a.m.
This is cool solution...

veky on Sept. 22, 2016, 11:16 a.m.
<a href="https://py.checkio.org/mission/fizz-buzz/publications/StefanPochmann/python-27/shortest-52-kill-me-now/">This one</a> is cooler. ;-)

ZoeyMH on Jan. 27, 2017, 1:41 a.m.
Very impressive

jshm70 on July 23, 2017, 10:20 a.m.
wowowowowowowowowow

DragonMachinations on Aug. 6, 2019, 6:11 p.m.
Nice. I was just thinking of how I'd like to try use lambda to solve this. Then you go and mop the floor with me by truncating it to a single line. Bravo.

leggewie on June 12, 2021, 3:40 p.m.
I like <ul> <li>the creative use of [:-1] to drop whitespace</li> <li>the creative use of or to return str(n) in case n isn't dividable by either 3 or 5</li> </ul> great job, inspiring!

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