In article <0udf9a1m3n02rt06a5ib58mvifm7sde...@4ax.com>, Steve Hayes <hayes...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 09:51:02 +1100, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > >Tony the Tiger wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 23:57:08 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> > >>> I am in total awe. > >> > >> I'm not. It has no real value. Write your code like that and you'll soon > >> be looking for a new job. > > > >Awww, did da widdle puddy tat get up on the wrong side of the bed this > >morning? :-) > > > > > >Obviously you don't write obfuscated code like this for production use, > >except in such cases where you deliberately want to write obfuscated code > >for production use. > > Yes, my initial reaction was "that's awesome". > > And my second thought was that it was scary. > > I ran it. It worked, and printed "Hello world". I was awed. > > But what if I had run it and it reformatted my hard disk? > > How would I have known that it would or wouldn't do that? How would you know any code you download from the net won't reformat your disk? If I wanted to write something evil, I wouldn't write it to look obfuscated. I'd write it to look like it did something useful. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
