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hippich on Nov 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cyclic Tag System: 1 Line of Turing-Complete Code

"The following line of python code is able to simulate a Universal Turing Machine:"

    while len(word) > S : pIndex, word = (pIndex + 1) % len(C), word[1:] + C[pIndex] 
    if (word[0] == "1") else word[1:]

dbaupp on Nov 24, 2012 [–]

It's not obvious for a non-Pythonista, but the if .. else .. is meant to be on the previous line. It's a ternary conditional like cond?a:b in C (with the condition in the middle).

fmoralesc on Nov 24, 2012 | [–]

Yes, they should have broken the line before `word[1:]` so it was clearer.

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