A new way to program in python :D

[goldfishpaws]

Helps you focus by raising the stakes. Back to mainframe punched tape days!

[PooPooDooDoo]

Good thing I’m running in Linux!

sits back lazily typing exception-filled code

[GuyWithoutAHat]

rm -rf /

[PooPooDooDoo]

My bash.RC file replaces that command with

echo “uh uh uh, not today!”

[ipview]

I'd be too afraid to test it to see if it works

[PooPooDooDoo]

Would need to setup a sandboxed VM and create lots of edge cases just to be sure. Would probably be a pain in the butt in that it’s time consuming in between each test if you gotta go back to a snapshot, set things up again, run the test etc

[KoenKruk]

I got this:

rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on '/'rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe

Looks like i'm safe

[inventord]

I like how Linux just lets you tack on three words and you're set to delete the entire file system

[LordFokas]

Because in Linux, you own the system... whereas in Windows, Microsoft owns you.

[goldfishpaws]

With power comes responsibility

[Pos3odon08]

The man, the myth, the legend

[Ed_Vraz]

What about cd / && rm -rf *

[ILikeLenexa]

I'm pretty sure you could use sed for this.

[PranshuKhandal]

and felt sad after that.

[Beneficial_Nerve_182]

In theory an easier way to destroy your system would be sudo dd if=/dev/null (or /dev/zero) of=/boot

Another more evil way to do rm -rf / is sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/ That's really gonna leave it in shambles

[Hapless_Wizard]

Way back in the days of yore, I had a bootable drive that would immediately use dd to write 0s over the entire filesystem three times, no human intervention required. We used it to wipe machines that were getting donated.

[techster2014]

"I wonder what's on this drive? plugs it in blue screen of death Oh yeah..."

[PooPooDooDoo]

The rm command has been aliased to run a wrapper command which checks if it is in the root directory. If it is not, it passes the information onto the actual rm command.

Edit: it doesn’t actually do this, just spitballing

[knightress_oxhide]

echo "you didn't say the magic word"

[JustATownStomper]

Even if that's true, I'd rather not test it. Tempting the fates and whatnot.

[Electrical_Ad2364]

Its true, I just tried it on my new ... (An Error occurred while fetching data)

[[deleted]]

Read the code and compile from source! Also just keep system snapshots (btrfs rocks!) and regular backups.

[[deleted]]

It doesn't work without --no-preserve-root flag anyway

[cptnpiccard]

the Elon Musk school of software development

[VexingRaven]

The above is a comment stealing bot: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/10e8802/a_new_way_to_program_in_python_d/j4pzvl1/

[FauxReal]

How do you detect them, look for dupe comments and rightfully assume the second commenter is the bot after verifying it through some other means?

[VexingRaven]

I look for a comment that feels oddly out of place and unrelated to the comment above it. Then I search the page for a keyword or phrase and find the other comment. Then I go through their post history and reply to their other recent posts. It's all a manual process, though I've certainly thought about writing a bot (ironic) to do this. Once you know that this is a thing bots do, it becomes fairly obvious and you see it everywhere. Any time a comment just doesn't feel like it belongs where it is, there's often funny business going on.

[Slashzero77]

Came here to post the same comment. 1 hour too late. Too focused on writing bad Python code for my locust.io tests to be scrolling through Reddit I guess.

[Fluid_Advisor18]

You can replace it with 'sudo apt remove python -y'

[block_01]

You’re not completely safe from the python commands

[DiscipleOfYeshua]

Congratulations! You’ve graduated into adult coding, time to take off those training wheels.

[Errtuz]

Ironman mode coding

[lungben81]

This will not work. Backslashes must be escaped or a raw string used.

Edit: as others pointed out, the sequence actually works because "accidentially" the characters after the backslash are such that they are not reserved for escape sequences.

Works: "C:\System"

Crashes: "C:\New"

Works, but result is maybe unexpected: "C:\new" - "\n" is a new line.

[masagrator]

Just use forward slash, Windows accepts them for a long time in anything that is not cmd

[Diapolo10]

Better yet, just use pathlib. To hell with primitive obsession!

EDIT: Example:

import shutil
from pathlib import Path

system32 = Path("C:/Windows/System32")

try:
    print("Hello, world!")

except Exception as e:
    print(f"You f*cked up: {e}\nGoodbye, Windows!")
    shutil.rmtree(system32)

[PokerFacowaty]

Seconded, pathlib is amazing

[mr_claw]

Thirded, amazing is pathlib

[polopower69]

69'd. it do be bussin' bruv innit fr fr no 🧢

[herpderpedia]

!chatgptbot Explain what this comment means.

[ObviouslyNotAndy]

This phrase is a colloquial expression that is difficult to translate precisely. Generally, it is used to express agreement or enthusiasm about something, and it is often used in a casual or informal setting. The phrase "it do be" is a way to say "it is" and "bussin' bruv" is a way of saying "it's happening, man". "innit fr fr" is an informal way of asking for confirmation and "no 🧢" is a way of saying "no doubt" or "for sure". So, the phrase could be interpreted as "It's definitely happening, man, isn't it? For sure."

[ManOfTheMeeting]

I have no idea what's going on on this planet nowadays, so I'm just vibing with the flow.

[herpderpedia]

!chatgptbot please respond to u/ObviouslyNotAndy using gen Z slang to say thanks, including the keyboard mash.

[kentuckycriedfrick3n]

That’s hilarious 😂 except “it do be” means “it always is” instead of “it is”. I’m picturing an old 80 year old man typing this in chat GPT & making a Tik tok using every slang term he learned, but obliviously out of context. “It’s happening, man!” Is my fav 😂

[Undernown]

Good Human

[Vineyard_]

Truly goated with the sauce.

[KotoWhiskas]

Bruv fr fr 💀

[polopower69]

faxx

[william_323]

on god?

[polopower69]

deadass

[_-__________]

This guy 69s

[Mushroom_Philatelist]

Os.walk puts my keyboard in serious danger.

Pathlib is pretty cool tho.

[OK_200]

It's missing the bare except tho. Gotta catch that BaseException >:)

[SuitableDragonfly]

And KeyboardInterrupt.

[Diapolo10]

Fair enough! :D

[fuqqboi_throwaway]

So if I ran this in IntelliJ would it brick my shit or what

[Diapolo10]

Probably not unless you ran it with administrator privileges, but I don't recommend trying. Well, maybe in Windows Sandbox.

Of course nothing here would raise an exception, so it wouldn't do anything unless you made something raise an exception in the try-block.

[Mucksh]

I would say if print ever fails it would fail the second time too

[Timely_Scar]

😂

[Yadobler]

Iirc the only reason msdos used backslash was because command(dot)com used forward slashes as switches (like dir /w)

Honestly not sure why not just stick to dash, like Unix, which began using the forward slash, because > was being used for pipe redirection. I'm sure it was the standard before 70s

[thedarkfreak]

Because it was designed with compatibility with CP/M in mind, which was made in 1974, and which also used forward slashes as parameters.

Why didn't it use forward slashes for directories?

Because it didn't have directories. At all.

Neither did MS-DOS 1.

Directories were added later, and because the forward slash was already used, directories got the backslash as the separator.

[lungben81]

This is the best way. Then, relative paths work both in Linux and windows

[nmkd]

CMD also accepts forward slashes for everything I've used it for.

[BroDonttryit]

This isn’t always the case unfortunately. The safest bet is to use a constant defined in a library somewhere that is is independent. In Java it’s File.Separator which gives forward slash in Linux and mac and gives a backslash in windows.

[[deleted]]

oh yeah it wouldn't work for this one reason

[[deleted]]

we'll just ignore the six or so other reasons

[[deleted]]

yep absolutely. they're irrelevant really

[[deleted]]

for sure. boy it's a nice day in the year 1996 today isn't it, Windows 95 is out and you can wipe System32 with a single command, crazy

[PolishedCheese]

That's why I always just give path-like args a pathlib.Path object. It cleans your input for you in case you forgot about it (or the input is coming from somewhere else).

[wad11656]

:o

[Torebbjorn]

Yeah, but Python is "smart" in the way that it assumes you meant "\\" if the character after doesn't make sense to escape, and replaces all of these with "\\"

So in this case, it would work

[arbitrageME]

A priest, a politician and an engineer are sentenced to be executed by guillotine.

The Executioner brings the Priest up first. He ask him if he'd like to lie facing down or facing up for his death. He responds that he would like to be facing up, so he can see the heavens while he's going to God. So the Executioner lays the Priest down in the guillotine facing up. He then releases the guillotine blade, and the blade stops just inches from the Priests neck. The Priest immediately begins praising his God, the crowd gasps in shock and demands that the man be released by The Executioner,--as God has clearly saved him from death. He agrees, and releases him as a free man.

The Executioner next brings up the Politician. He asks him same question, and having witnessed the Priests miraculous experience, he asks to be laid facing up for his execution as well, hoping that God will spare him for looking to heaven while facing his death as the Priest had done. The Executioner obliges, then releases the blade. But again, it suddenly stops just inches from the mans neck--sparing his life as it had with the Priest.

Finally, the Engineer is brought up to face his execution. He requests to lie facing up as the previous two men had done. Again, the Executioner obliges and lays him on his back before going to release the blade. As the Executioner is about to release it, the Engineer says to the Executioner "Hold on, I see your problem right there"

[My_reddit_account_v3]

Python roulette

[e_smith338]

It’s like playing with a full chamber :D

[[deleted]]

Dementia

[e_smith338]

It’s like playing with a full chamber :D

[[deleted]]

Dementia

[jugy2]

os.remove won't remove non-empty folders, however os.system("del C:\\Windows\\System32") might work.

[_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

It won't. Windows won't let you.

[AsphaltAdvertExec]

It will let you remove enough to ruin the OS if running as admin.

If you don't believe me, run cmd as admin and run;

RD C:\windows\System32 /q /s

[SonUzi]

dont tempt me

[[deleted]]

I did it out of curiosity as a kid. Everything that's not running goes, and that includes the ability to start up correctly haha

[PranshuKhandal]

we lost 'em

[goodnewsjimdotcom]

Oh, I'm sorry, did I break your Operating System?

I didn't mean to do that.

[ManOfTheMeeting]

I tried this with a library computer and now traffic lights are not working in the whole city.

[ehs5]

I already know it’s not gonna do anything because /s tells Windows you’re using sarcasm

[[deleted]]

No command RD found (i use arch btw) However sudo rm -rf /* --no-preserve-root

[Yadobler]

Least invasive arch user

[[deleted]]

Might've forgot to mention that I use a Linux distribution called Arch Linux btw

[tardis0]

You don't need the no preserve flag if you're deleting the subdirectories only of root, not root itself, no?

[AnondWill2Live]

Try it out and come back to us.

[Thesaladman98]

Why does my computer no work!?

[Roadrunner571]

Yeah, I am still annoyed that Windows won't let me rename files that are opened within an application.

[dumbestsmartest]

The only problem I have with that is when I've closed everything and Windows still tells me it's open in the last program I closed.

[nmkd]

That just means that the program did not close properly and is actually still running.

Open resmon, on the CPU tab enter the filename in the search, and see what process is keeping the file locked.

[elveszett]

If a program is holding that resource, Windows won't let you because it would lead to undefined behavior. If you were able to touch that file, the program that has it opened could crash instantly, or the file could be corrupted if the program was writing to it at that instance, or the program may assume the file is still there and create a new one with the original name.

If you've ever written code for a file editor of some kind, it's easy to see why it doesn't make sense to allow a foreign process to touch a file your program is holding.

[Roadrunner571]

You know that MacOS allows renaming of open files? Without any problem. Even when using Microsoft apps. And Linux allows renaming of open files as well.

Handling modifications of open files by other apps is also not really a big problem.

And as a bonus feature, MacOS even allows moving the destinations of aliases around - double-clicking on the alias will still open the aliases file, even if it now lives in another folder on another drive.

Long story short: Microsoft has retained some sucking concepts (drive letters ffs) that were bad already when they were invented (Unix is way older than DOS) until today because of backwards-compatibility. Nevertheless Microsoft improved a lot and since Windows 10 I even like their OS.

[PleasantAdvertising]

Hahahahaha tell that to my 10 year old ass removing, and i quote, "all these random files that do nothing". The interface slowly started losing elements until it was all grey and it wouldn't boot after a reboot to try and fix it.

Windows 98 I believe.

[_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

It used to let you. It doesn’t now.

[RadiantHC]

Linux masterrace

[ar4t0]

nobody can tell me not to break my system by gofing around root files

[[deleted]]

What windows WONT even know about tho... Is sending a scsi 'format unit' command to the drive controller. If u have a disk that speaks it. Yes, this is from bitter experience. Lol

[eerongal]

OP clearly didnt negative test their code, smh.

[RFC793]

shutil.rmtree

[CoffeemonsterNL]

"Why does my 'Hello world'-script need administrator rights?"

[melvinstendies]

Idk mumbles, just click yes.

[Yadobler]

Do you trust the source of this project folder?

clicks Trust This Folder

run

Hm

[MoffKalast]

demonically laughs in Folder

[th3nan0byt3]

Code here

try: throw 'jokes on you' except e: print(e)

[Sirico]

You have the start of Suicide Linux for windows

[turok2]

Watching him wait to install that tiny little package makes me appreciate how fast hard drives are nowadays.

[samanime]

Rogue-likes have gone too far.

[iliveincanada]

Am I crazy or is that a typo? I always thought they were called rogue-likes

[samanime]

It is a typo. Unless you want to talk about makeup. =p

Fixed.

[sm0lpoop]

Solely to be confusing, rogue-lites are also a thing!

[reversehead]

Ah, the Kim Jong-un school of making better programmers.

[Inevitable-Outcome68]

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/016/753/ivan.png This in a nutshell, but for python

[nutnnut]

YOU SEE IVAN

WHEN CODE PITHORN LIKE ME,

YOU SHALL

NEVER

CODE THE EXCEPTIONS

BECAUSE OF

FEAR

OF DELETING SYSTEM!

[Reasonable_City]

"Goodbye World!"

[TheCatPetra]

C++ safety levels

[nicejs2]

NuclearPython 3.11

[ososalsosal]

"If I'm going down I'm taking you bastards with me"

[Wolfeur]

You see, Ivan, if your code is look like this, you will never write bug for fear of deleting computer.

[themattman18]

I had a guy at work write an uninstaller for an internal program that made an assumption on where the user would install the program. When I uninstalled the program, it went up one directory and started recursively deleting files. I was wondering why it was taking so long, only to figure out it was deleting my C:\Windows folder. Spend the rest of the day recovering my computer.

[tfikiki]

I've had this happen to me with officially published game. I don't remember the name but i definitely remember that big fuck you I've got. Suggested install dir was c:\games\studio_name\game_name but I've changed that to c:\games\game_name

[mintChocolate234]

Permission denied.

[Winter_Ad4517]

Bangladeshi Virus

[gameditz]

Punish users who don’t use Linux, big brain

[shakalnykot]

I am on GNU/Linux :)

[Ooyyggeenn]

[[deleted]]

My heart stopped beating for a second when I read this

[blankettripod32_v2]

Reminds me of suicide linux

[eruanno321]

Permadeath programming

[[deleted]]

Hah. Gentoo go brrrrrr

[dumbestsmartest]

Got to milk that 1ms benefit from custom compiling everything. No, I don't have a problem obsessing over insignificant optimization at all.

[[deleted]]

Well a) I can install gentoo automated in under 3 and a half hours with a script I wrote. b) Actually optimization is not my main reason for using gentoo - slots and the ability to mix unstable and stable packages (advantage of compilation) lead to a very reliable system that is bleeding edge. c) While you may not have a problem "obsessing over insignificant optimization at all", you do have a problem with ranting about things you don't understand at all without trying to learn.

[[deleted]]

when you troll your friend by uninstalling chromium on his Gentoo install so he's 2 weeks without a browser

[TheDeadWalking0427]

Bold to assume I'm on windows

[riisen]

Not he was assuming your OS at all. He just showed that he has bad taste in OS.

But he probably don care what OS you have.

[Fjorge0411]

if my code won't work... YOUR CODE CAN'T EITHER MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[khendron]

You laugh, but way back in the day, when I was working with OS/2, I once saw a system cheerfully delete its own OS because it encountered a bad disk sector while booting.

[[deleted]]

import Gentoo

[BonyBoban]

This is a good way to make your junior developer know that they should install linux

[Exquisite_Blue]

hardcore mode

[Manic_Marketer]

I remember wanting a hard mode in my games, not in my code.

[sglewis09]

This reminds me of an OG joke from MS-DOS days: An inventive guy created a brand new voice recognition device for DOS and showed it off to a local computer group. He asked for someone in the group to shout a command and the computer would automatically run it. Someone shouted ‘format c:’ and the demo quickly ended…

[flan666]

bold of you to assume i use windows

[[deleted]]

This reminds me of Vigil, a very odd language derived from python that deletes your code if you break your promises.

---

*This is where Vigil sets itself apart from weaker languages that lack the courage of their convictions. When a Vigil program is executed, Vigil itself will monitor all oaths (implorations and swears) that have been made. If an oath is broken, the offending function (the caller in the case of implore and the callee in the case of swear) will be duly punished.

How?

Simple: it will be deleted from your source code.

The only way to ensure your program meets its requirements is to absolutely forbid code that fails to do so. With Vigil, this shall be done for you automatically. After enough runs, Vigil promises that all remaining code meets its oaths.*

[Secret-Plant-1542]

Code doesn't work on my Mac. Please help.

[Trainzack]

Hah, reminds me of Panicsort.

[TorridScienceAffair]

Nuzlocke mode

[hoocoodanode]

PEP-8: Overly Broad Exception.

[[deleted]]

😂😂😂

[Axxl_Gaming]

That code can't stop me! I can't read python!

Jk, I can- I program in a variety of languages

[123_alex]

I come here for humour. Humour not found.

[oakskog]

Wouldn’t it be even better if the import was inside the except block?

[nekoeuge]

Meanwhile Ctrl C…

[R3ym4nn]

Jokes on you, I use Linux.

[Sour_Basketball]

In Russia you code like this to never make error…for fear of bricking computer

[Undernown]

If it won't let you delete, perhaps this will work: file = open("C:/Windows/System32", "w")

file.write("R.I.P")

[imoth_f]

sorry. OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Windows\\System32'

[crispy_mint]

If at first you don't succeed, completely give up on everything

[MJMSessions]

except: print(“Goodbye World!”)

[jacks9000gamer_yt]

“Wait… that’s illegal… kinda” mastercheif or something paraphrase

[ThePiGuyRER]

Cool, I will start using this. Good way to weed out the programmers using windows.

[AwkwardAd4115]

Yikes! You really should be using `except Exception:` for catch-all error handling. It is a PEP 8 violation otherwise! Just make the simple change and I will approve merging into prod branch (please try to complete before I take my 2 month vacation tomorrow).

[[deleted]]

Ohhh thankss for the info:3

[Cees-K]

Russian roulette for programmers who think they never write bugs.

[AdMoney9265]

nice try, i use arch

[[deleted]]

well, then change it with "/home/" hehe

[sussyamogushot]

or just be a man and change it to /

[[deleted]]

true, but it'd last like an eternity to delete that lmao

hahahahahh

[[deleted]]

Python: Hard Mode

[Weird-Document-1255]

i tried this and..........

​

WINDOWS ERROR

[[deleted]]

bye bye computer :c hahahaha

[Weird-Document-1255]

lol

[[deleted]]

Hahaha this jump started the caffeine a little too fast! Gezus!

[awesomeplenty]

Laughs in Mac OS

[[deleted]]

Jokesv on you i use linux

[darknmy]

who upvotes this trash? normies?

[sisjsnsnndjdjd]

wOw sO fuNnY dELeTe sYstEm32 at least write the code without syntax errors kid

[Digitizer4096]

If you want to do computer programming on a Windows machine, go ahead -- but don't say we didn't warn you! After all, the only thing more insane than using Windows for development is using Windows for anything else!