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\$\begingroup\$ Could you provide an ungolfed example of your script? \$\endgroup\$

backus
– backus

2011-03-23 04:43:55 +00:00
Commented Mar 23, 2011 at 4:43
\$\begingroup\$ Can we use * for parsing inputs of the form 4545 78? \$\endgroup\$

Quixotic
– Quixotic

2011-03-23 14:27:32 +00:00
Commented Mar 23, 2011 at 14:27
\$\begingroup\$ Unfortunately, no, but it's not * that's the issue. 4545 78 isn't a valid Python expression, so input() will raise a SyntaxError. This trick depends entirely on the problem asking for x,y. If you had a function that read x y and returned a tuple, then you could use * with that just fine. \$\endgroup\$

user1011
– user1011

2011-03-23 16:52:19 +00:00
Commented Mar 23, 2011 at 16:52

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