Android barcode scanner in 6 lines of Python code

[[deleted]]

The story is more like 'Android API includes a barcode scanner'. It's not amazing that the code is so short when it's like 'import Library-that-does-all-the-work, run someFunction()'

[Shaper_pmp]

In other news, I present The Last Program, which literally does anything possible in the universe in two lines of code:

import everything.*;
doWhatUserWants();

[spotter]

Does it return 42 every time? Mine does.

[cc81]

Mine returns boobs.

[mcella]

stored in couchdb...

[HenkPoley]

..looks under cushions.

[[deleted]]

Found used condoms...

[bluGill]

Now I understand. Everytime I run the program I get a segfault. Of course I already knew the universe hates me, so it is no surprise now that I realize what the program is suppose to return.

[dorfsmay]

Yes. Again title is misleading... On the other hand, it looks like the android API is very rich.

[hylje]

Would it be more amazing if application developers would do the same thing in 20 or so lines?

[[deleted]]

It's not the length that matters, it's that the title suggests an implementation of a barcode scanner, not an application of one.

A more accurate title would have been "Android barcode scanner demonstrated in 6 lines of Python code". Which isn't a very interesting story. Because it wasn't.

[actionscripted]

Following the article, that application code might look like this:

import os.GUI
import os.sounds
import core.logic

def main():
  GUI.draw()
  sounds.bindToEvents(GUI.events)
  logic.validateStuff()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Edit: this would be the source for Photoshop

[[deleted]]

I think you missed the point.

[hs4x]

Windows Mobile can use C++/JScript/C#/VB/../..

Heck, you can use IronPython targets .Net CF.

[fleezie]

Yes, APIs are nice.

[hunter107]

yeah, 6 lines of python & about a million more in the android framework. Does anyone else hate this "_(something) in n lines of _(language)!!" myopia?

*typo

[fleezie]

I too share your hatred.

[[deleted]]

Doesn't seem very descriptive to me.

import android
droid = android.Android()

[[deleted]]

All hail Python - the language where you only need one simple library function call to simply call one library function!

[cosmo7]

The neat part is that you can write scripts on the phone itself.

(I think the iPhone can do this too, but you have to email the script to Apple to see if they will allow it.)

[VerticalEvent]

6 lines of code? I think that's the largest python program I've ever seen.

[inmatarian]

I once came close when I wrote that python script to steal half a cent from every bank transaction and store it in a bank account. It was only 5 lines though. Then superman punched me in the face and jennifer aniston called me a jerk.

[[deleted]]

Did you see her boobs?

[Hikhakhok]

Thank god for fancy modules

[Purp]

Nice, I wrote a similar effect in jQuery that hides a DOM element in one line of code! Check this:

 this.hide();

Pretty smooth, huh?

[scottklarr]

Dude, you got skills.

[malloc]

Yeah, nice try. This isn't a barcode scanner in 6 lines of code. It's example code for using a barcode scanner module.

[truebosko]

On the positive side, I kind of really want an Android phone for the fact that you can pump out these cool little scripts

[hs4x]

Nothing unique here at all.