On 04/07/2012 20:37, Paul Rubin wrote:
I just came across this (https://gist.github.com/1208215):import sys import ctypes pyint_p = ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_byte*sys.getsizeof(5)) five = ctypes.cast(id(5), pyint_p) print(2 + 2 == 5) # False five.contents[five.contents[:].index(5)] = 4 print(2 + 2 == 5) # True (must be sufficiently large values of 2 there...) Heh. The author is apparently anonymous, I guess for good reason.
The author got confused trying to switch from imperial to metric numbers or vice versa?
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