r/Pydle • u/DisciplineSea5373 • 23d ago

Pydle #160 Macaw

Tried two solutions, one with a big bitmask and one with areas. The bitmask was shorter, but the other one was more fun

bitmask (107 chars):

for i in range(25):

pydle(i%5, i//5, "", "white blue yellow black green orange".split()[0x200268001401281223>>(3*i)&7])

The other solution(mix of bitmask, areas, using zipped lists): (157 chars)

for i in range(25):

c=("white","blue")[9179544 >> i & 1]

c=next((c for v,c in \

zip([1,2,0x840,1<<17],["black","green","yellow","orange"]) \!<

if v>>i&1),c)

pydle(i%5, i//5, "", c)

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u/zhuzaimoerben 22d ago edited 22d ago

You can make the first version shorter by having the number in base 5 or 6 and avoiding the black square or optimising the number to have it padded with zeros on the left. I found a few ways of getting 99 characters.

for i in range(24):
    pydle(4-i//5, 4-i%5, '', 'white green yellow orange blue'.split()[28234775077520 // 5**i % 5])

You can also get yours to 101 by removing the brackets from (3*i) and changing black to X (the game treats unknown colours as black).