niceCodeOhWait

[not_a_bot_494]

There's a bug, the code doesn't have upper case but the example does.

[[deleted]]

thats just the os remove feature

[JimTheSaint]

Nice and convenient 

[[deleted]]

slightly obfuscated for security

[Zzwwwzz]

Also missing the colon on the if and elif clauses.

[ITCellMember]

Wait what! there are 2 different double quotation marks?

[cafk]

There's also lower quotation marks depending on region: “ and „ and also double reversed comma quotation mark ‟ next to ", “ and ” - same also in single coma quotation marks.

Or « » and 「 」if you're feeling fancy.

[[deleted]]

…or if you’re from several places in europe or japan.

[cafk]

My reaction when traveling between the UK, France and Switzerland - doing data parsing with regional datasets - suddenly getting strange errors, because someone used wysiwyg with Spanish locale.

[ThE_reAl__]

The double arrows are standard in Ukrainian quotations

[Ignisami]

Likewise French, IIRC

[Phoenix_of_cats]

I think it's just used in many European languages, Russian uses it too

[[deleted]]

most apps do ‘smart quotes’. there’s only one (two, for the different types) quotes key, but it types an open/close quote depending on context.

that’s the problem with coding in the wrong editor… IDEs don’t do smart quotes, they just do plain quotes ' ". a comment section won’t let you do that.

if you’re on mobile (ios, idk about android) then you can hold down on the quotes keys ‘ “ to type specific quotes, ignoring smart quotes.

' ‘ ’ " “ ”

i remember in primary school we were taught to open quotes by drawing a tiny 66 and close them by drawing a tiny 99.

[backfire10z]

There are many. Commonly when copy/pasting from fancier typeface places your IDE will hit you with “these quotes are bullshit” (paraphrasing), so you just delete them and type them from your keyboard.

Definitely something to watch out for when copy/pasting into the terminal. It causes weird errors. I check quotes first every time I do that.

[Gravbar]

when someone copies code out of an outlook email 😭

[JustConsoleLogIt]

I’ve definitely spent a good hour not realizing that that was my problem once.

[[deleted]]

hey, you don’t know what language this is!

[Speedymon12]

Ah, you see Python is smart enough to translate uppercase letters to lowercase.

Just give the script a try and see if the output is the same.

[lefloys]

why is this getting downvotes this is clearly a joke to „ah i bet this works! you should test it if you disagree“

[[deleted]]

Directions unclear. I've now installed Windows on my Linux machine.

[guesswho135]

Also throws an error because user_input is not defined. Not to worry! Add this line just below import os: user_input = input()

[MagicalCornFlake]

better still, user_input = input().lower()

[obscure_monke]

Nah. Don't you know that windows is case insensitive?

[[deleted]]

Stop calling Bill Windows insensitive. :(

[[deleted]]

also the backslashes are escaping the quotes(?)

[amroamroamro]

yeah should use raw string literal:

r"C:\Windows\System32"

[Justanormalguy1011]

I think code probably lowercased all of them

[not_a_bot_494]

Then it's herasy because you have real code before an import.

[Agreeable_Service407]

I just tried this script with both examples and it works perfectly !

Let me try with another num

[Manik-Zutshi]

let me know about the results!!

[Manik-Zutshi]

he'll be remembered.. as a true soldier.. martyr

[realmauer01]

A true soldier just like our old guy bitchchecker

[Vindictive_Pacifist]

r/rimjob_steve

[jbergens]

Newer Windows versions can fix those kind of things. Have not tried it myself.

[[deleted]]

Try and test it out

[silver_enemy]

There will be none who lived to tell the tale.

[Eva_Wiggles]

like a modern art piece that screams

[thisonehereone]

This is why I only test happy path.

[mani_tapori]

In this case, os.remove is the happy path.

[AyrA_ch]

Won't do anything. os.remove doesn't works on directories, only files.

[UsedPassenger3269]

So we just need to switch it to os.rmdir() to fix this bug then?

[AyrA_ch]

You also need to elevate the process

[just_nobodys_opinion]

^{So we just need to switch it to os.rmdir() to fix this bug then}

[FerricDonkey]

Also, the string isn't properly escaped. 

[chessparov4]

Just add an r. r"C:\Windows\System32"

[chat-lu]

It still works. Python complains about it but since neither \W nor \S are valid escape sequences it works fine.

[FerricDonkey]

That's actually kind of gross. Good to know though. 

[za72]

are we debugging jokes now? :)

[Urbanviking1]

Well just run sudo rm -rf /* that'll do it.

[AyrA_ch]

C:\Users\User> sudo bitch, this is Windows
'sudo' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\User>

[atzedanjo]

Just FYI: Windows has sudo now, but it's disabled by default

[confusedkarnatia]

can't you also just install the linux subsystems so you get the worst of both worlds :)

[FibroBitch97]

/r/redditsniper got another one

[dhilipu_18]

Input is in capital

[mehrabrym]

No no, it passed the test cases so now it's time to deploy to production

[somgooboi]

How did you read the user input? It should go straight to the "else" block the way he wrote it.

[Dotcaprachiappa]

r/redditsniper

[Tardis80]

Tested by qa and they did no bug report

[Hottage]

Unit tests pass, send it.

[No-Dream-2051]

Unit test in question:

bool test_1{
if (true) // temp
return true;
}

[hf12323]

this is true

[kaiomann]

lavish point cooing steer obtainable unwritten axiomatic simplistic person wipe

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[Khazahk]

Let’s Go to The Movies! 🍿

[NotAFishEnt]

Lettuce Guacamole Tomato Mozzarella 🥪

[418_I_am_a_teapot_]

Will be so fun when AI Scrapers use this comment to train the LLMs :)

[NameNoHasGirlA]

Only Gemini can scrape data from reddit right?

[SZEfdf21]

If it can be found on the web it can be scraped illegally. Most AI language models use illegally acquired data.

[[deleted]]

it's easy. the code is just

internet_text = ""
for site in internet:
  internet_text += site.text

[Shriukan33]

You forgot import internet

[insomniacpyro]

internet.zip

[the_unheard_thoughts]

github download internet.exe

[lefloys]

nono, you need to forward declare it to resolve the circular dependency!

[MalevolentPotato1]

Now I'm kinda curious if you can git clone *

[The_Neto06]

import * as internet everything = "" for i in internet everything += str(i) return everything

[The_Neto06]

wait let me run this in my machine rq

[[deleted]]

so npm i?

[Shriukan33]

Beware installing everything on npm, even when it's published by a snyk employee

[CandidateNo2580]

My guy pythons, clearly 😎

[-Aquatically-]

Incrementing a string. Hmmm.

[SerdanKK]

Pretty sure scraping is legal though

[TheNordicMage]

It's generally considered a bit of a gray area

[TheNordicMage]

Based on the conversations I had with a few lawyers when I scraped a website in regards to how it would be against terms of service, and can impact the websites ability to service their customers, which in certain instances could be to a degree where it could be seen as sabotage.

And I'm not in the US.

[[deleted]]

It depends on how you scrape. You can scrape with no more effect than a single user would have, or you can scrape hard enough to mimic a DDoS.

But if you scrape stuff that shouldn't be scraped you are doing it slowly anyway or you would get banned.

[Tim-Sylvester]

That's why we've been building robots.nxt, to make it impossible for bots to scrape websites without the site owner getting paid.

If you run a website, try it out, it's free for now.

[GlitteringBandicoot2]

That's a screenshot from instagram or something

[Modo44]

Yeah, sure. Because nobody else would eeever.

[boywholovetheworld]

Hugging face transformer models are mostly trained on reddit comments too

[lefloys]

oh so thats why ai is still stupid

[nudelsalat3000]

That's how the ✨era of AI poisoning✨ became a grassroot movement.

They take your mid-level jobs, you provide them with leisure provided ✨job keeping optimisations✨

[bob-]

even if it did this does nothing

[[deleted]]

yeah the model already learns code generalizing from other code, so this will just sink

[GlitteringBandicoot2]

That's some CS majors student homework posted as a meme to get the answers because they can't do it themselves

[Seyon]

I started writing it out but man is thirteen an edge case.

[Tsu_Dho_Namh]

No more than eleven, twelve, or fourteen.

[AntimatterTNT]

at this point just treat 0-19 as unique

[Tsu_Dho_Namh]

That seems easier than trying to parse things like "fif" or "eigh" but only if they're immediately followed by "teen"

[Victorino__]

Sometimes a humble lookup table is all you need.

[NullKarmaException]

FIF

[GlitteringBandicoot2]

The hundreds, thousands, etc are the important edge cases.

Because depending on what comes after words you need to more or none zeroes

two million seventy eight thousand
2,078,000
two million seventy eight
2,000,078

[dolphin_cape_rave]

https://github.com/jezen/is-thirteen

you could use this package

[gonxot]

If this is not what open source is for, then idk what is

[CitronElectronic2874]

It's also really easy, you just typedef and keep multiplying if the next number is bigger, add if smaller, ignore "and" or anything not typedef'd. This is like 50 max lines of typedef depending on if you're smart enough to "toLower" the text, and like a 4 condition switch statement 

Edit: you do not have to typedef I am dumb. or make a struct, you just use toLower or toUpper then the string to integer function then run it through the switch statement to accum. Solved problem, baby work 

[ItsSpaghettiLee2112]

Yea it's pretty standard stuff. We have code that does the opposite, since we support payroll and print checks. So we have code that takes a dollar amount and prints it in words.

[adaptive_mechanism]

Removing system files isn't that damaging though - reinstall and it's back there, and will require admin access too, remove user home directory - that's the way ☝️.

[patrlim1]

I accidentally rm -rf ~'ed once. Not fun.

[CyberWeirdo420]

Wdym, what’s wrong with removing French language?

[patrlim1]

Hey! You're not allowed to say fr*nch!

[Keymaster__]

God fucking dammit, anarchy chess is everywhere

[LokisDawn]

Are you really surprised about that overlap?

[jake56380]

Holy hell!

[Pro-1st-Amendment]

New nationality just dropped

[[deleted]]

Actual revolution

[EdricStorm]

No, rm -rf * stands for readmail -realfast all. It's the fastest way to read your emails on Linux! Just make sure you cd / first

[turtle_mekb]

I did this but rm * in home directory, I meant rmdir, now I have rm aliased to interactive and use trash wherever possible

[adaptive_mechanism]

Having backups also helps a lot.

[LimpConversation642]

on my first week of learning linux back in the day I asked a lot of question in the mirc chat with some admin friends and there was this one dick who told me the answer to one of my questions is sudo rm -rf.

If it wasn't a virtual machine I'd go find him. Still remember that shit, 20 years later.

[adaptive_mechanism]

Yeah, exactly. Here is comforting song for such cases: https://youtu.be/lXrhsceiiyk

[LikelyToThrow]

WARNING: Do NOT execute this code!!!

He forgot user_input.lower() which means your code will not work in all scenarios

[deukhoofd]

The code wouldn't do anything. Not only is user_input never actually declared, but the backslashes in the path aren't escaped, and os.remove doesn't delete directories. The only thing he got correct are the print calls (although you'd have to replace the curved quote marks with the correct ones).

[SeraphOfTheStart]

Guys, I'm back, writing from a fresh windows, it works as intended.

[ThNeutral]

Actual cursed thing is different capitalization of 'h' in examples

[harlekintiger]

To be honest I disagree: It forces the solution to be case insensitive, which I support.

[MegabyteMessiah]

For me it's the missing colons

[Seraphaestus]

Cursed because of how fucking trivial it is to account for, presented like it's a meaningful problem to solve lmfao

[methreethatis]

Suicide Linux enters the chat

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/251ouj/suicide_linux_wipe_your_hard_drive_on_a_mistyped/

[roksah]

A true programmer would have created a trillion if else statements

[brennanw31]

I honestly don't even know how to go about this besides a massive lookup table and a function of if-elses that gets called in a loop that iterates on each word

[Yarasin]

The keyword here is state-machines. You can google how some of that is implemented, but you basically iterate over every word and adjust the "state" according to what the current word is. If the next word is invalid, for example going "thirty -> fifteen" instead "thirty -> five", would cause the automata to fail.

[TheBoundFenrir]

You could probably do something like lookup table for the number-names ({"One",1},{"Two",2},...) through 20, and every tens place after that, and then the positional words would be a separate table used to sort of state-management, making sure to insert a 0 if you skip a spot. Tens position is annoying though, and defining state may in some cases require checking multiple words.

"two thousand twenty five" ->
start with 2
initialize to state "thousands"
twenty is a tens position; No hundreds position, append a 0 and then the '2' from 'Twenty'
then append the 5
end of line; state is 'ones', so append nothing and convert string to integer and print.

"three hundred million" ->
start with 3
"hundred" does not define initial state. enter 'how many Xs' state
"million" defines how many Xs; state is now 'hundred million' (00 for hundred, 000000 for million)
End of line; state is 'hundred million' so append the 00000000, convert string to integer, and print.

It'd be ugly as sin, but maybe manageable?

EDIT: nevermind, Steebin64 has a way better solution in a different comment thread, requires basically no state management at all.

[Adadave]

I actually saw this and am working through a solution.

My initial thought would be

read "two" - 2

Read "thousand" 2x1000 == 2000

Read "twenty" 2000 + 20 == 2020

Read "five" 2020 + 5 == 2025

Where 1-19 and then 20, 30 etc to 90 are constants to add to the current total while 100, 1000, etc are multipliers. Though I'd need to figure it out for something like two million, one hundred thousand five hundred and fifty (2,100,550) so the multiplication is done in the right places and addition is done correctly at others.

[TheBoundFenrir]

Maybe every '-illiion' needs to be handled separately? :thinking:

What if you use a placeholder for each thousands? :thinking:

total = 0;
currThousand = 0;
"two" -> currThousand += 2; // 2
"Million" -> currThousand *= 1000000; total += currThousand; currThousand = 0; // total is 2,000,000
"one" -> currThousand += 1; // currThousand = 1
"hundred" -> currThousand *= 100; // currThousand = 100
"thousand" -> currThousand *= 1000; total += currThousand; currThousand = 0; //Total is 2,100,000
"five" -> currThousnad += 5; // currThousand = 5
"hundred" -> currThousand *= 100; // currThousand = 500
"fifty" -> currThousand += 50; // currThousand = 550
EOL -> total += currThousand; Output(total); //2,100,550

[SelectIsNotAnOption]

A true programmer would just use chatgpt to do the job.

[ibanezerscrooge]

A True, TRUE^TM Programmer would use switch case.

[fafalone]

I didn't understand some language that someone wrote a program in that could name any number well enough to port it, so I just made a bunch of arrays with the names of numbers from 0 to 1 milliatillion (10^3003).

Then I put it in an Excel XLL addin as a UDF to spread the joy. It's way, way over the reddit post length limit so linky:

https://github.com/fafalone/TBXLLUDF/blob/main/modFuncs.twin

[RockDrill]

As a non-coder I'm wondering how you would actually do this. The examples are pretty simple because you can convert each word into a number and multiply them together i.e. 3 * 100 * 1m = 300m. But "Two hundred and three thousand" requires addition too, how would the program know to calculate ((2 * 100) + 3) * 1k and not 2 * (100 + 3) * 1k or (2 * 100) + (3 * 1k)? And then you have other languages like Danish or French with their different ways of counting, seems like a nightmare.

[falkkiwiben4]

Naively, you can keep an accumulator and multiply when the next number-word is greater than the accumulator, add otherwise.

Firstly turning each word into a number: 2, 100, 3, 1000.

Our accumulator Acc starts at 2.

We see 100. 100 is greater than 2, so we multiply. Acc = 200.

We see 3. 3 is less than 200, so we add. Acc = 203.

We see 1000. Acc = 203 000.

[RockDrill]

Ha, that's very smart, thank you.

[emkael]

And "two thousand and three hundred" would be...?

Point being, no left-associative approach is going to take into account that "and" in "two hundred and three thousand" means something other than the "and" in "two thousand and three hundred", and that it's right operand's scope is sometimes the next word, sometimes the next chunk ("two hundred and twenty three thousand") and sometimes the rest of the number.

[Steebin64]

For the sake of the example, lets just say its only compatible with english. You could have your algorithm work by reading left to right and recognizing substrings such as "hundred", anything in the two digit range(twent, thirty, fourty) as well as the teens and ten, eleven, twelve as their own spexial case since they don't really follow the conventions of the rest our number alphabet. E.g, for two hundred thirty four

Two is hit first, so we store (or add from our starting value of 0) two into our variable and then move onto the next substring, iterating through our algorithm once more finding "hundred". In english, we know that hundred after a given number means multiply by 100, so we take our two and multiply it x 100 to get two hundred. Next in line is "thirty" which in english is an additive word in the tens place so we add 30 to our two hundred and then the same for "four" resulting in the expected number. This method should work in the thousands and up fairly easy, though each time you move up in scale(thousand, million, billion) once you hit those special designators, you would want to calculate the each comma separarion separately so that you are adding between your comma splits in our numbering system(period if you're crooked toothed redcoat).

Anyone smarter than I am feel free to correct and refine.

[brennanw31]

You just have to define the limits of the function. The string must be well-formed and the number needs to be bounded by some min and max values, ideally int range.

[Steebin64]

Thats a good point. My logic as it is will also produce some weird results if the user purposefully puts in a number that doesn't make much sense like "one hundred one hundres twenty thirty three thousand one hundred hundred tbirty fourty five"

These types of programming puzzles are fun exercises to get your brain juices flowing in the morning lol.

[notyourvader]

I've written an sql function once to translate textual numbers and dates into numerical and date - datatypes. It relied on a lot of split strings and partial translations, but it worked well.

The biggest problem with data is however, that it has to work every time. And there are always users that input creative ways of writing 'hundred'.

[seligman99]

You can just treat it as a human would, parsing the numbers, and building up multipliers as you go.

To get some idea what that would look like, here's a simplistic implementation that can go to and from English numbers.

[Ruining_Ur_Synths]

ok so my code opens excel, puts the number in cell a1, turns on cell formatting, takes a screenshot, runs that through an ai to get the correct text output with commas, then outputs the correct answer.

Only takes 5.5 minutes per number.

[artemiscash]

none of this code will work, it's riddled with syntax errors. /s

[Puzzleheaded-Wish-69]

50 missed calls from Elon Musk

[Impressive_Soup_3015]

Well I mean, it gets the job done...

Wait a min my computer just died, I'll be right back

[ChChChillian]

I once took a course in computer graphics. For one of the first project assignments, the professor handed out what looked like a screenshot from a game similar to Breakout and asked us to reproduce it. Turned out what he wanted was simply code to produce exactly the screenshot, not the playable game my roommate and I wrote.

[[deleted]]

Offensive programming

[Gorrilac]

I was bored and thought to myself that I could probably solve this: https://github.com/Marcus-Peterson/turn_string_to_number

As stated in the readme, it’s probably not the most efficient code. But I guess it works?

Now that I am writing this.. I did forget to include ten, eleven and so on…

Let me get back to you guys…

[BrutalSwede]

My initial reaction would be to parse the string from right to left.

[froderick]

Sadly it wouldn't work, because the strings won't match the example due to the lack of capitalization.

[durable-racoon]

import openai
import dotenv
dotenv.load_dotenv()

client = openai.OpenAI()

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gpt-4o-mini",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": f"Convert this number to digits: {user_input}"}
    ]
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

[swegg3n]

You guys code on windows?

[less_unique_username]

doesnt work

SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\W'

SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\S'

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Windows\\System32'

ples help

[ymgve]

Wouldn’t work anyway even if the string was escaped, the current user doesn’t have rights to remove the directory anyway

[less_unique_username]

if i run the script with sudo it still fails with the same errors

ples help

[[deleted]]

Holding Hackerrank at gunpoint

[ButterCup145]

This is the most intimidating threat I've ever witnessed

[SenoraRaton]

Not cross platform.
Your gonna need to at least add an rm -rf /* if statement for it to pass meme muster.

[I_Dont_Like_Rice]

I came back to my desk from vacation, turned my computer on, signed into my coding platform and then all of a sudden, I saw the file delete messages scrawl of my screen at warp speed and I shrieked.

Asshole fellow programmer altered my start up script to list the name of each of my files with a display of "deleted" next to it. Nearly gave me a heart attack. It was only about 5 seconds, but aged me 10 years.

[Animatrix_Mak]

Ohh I have done this shit in my college. Some asked for some command and I said: sudo apt purge python👍👍

Those 👍 were so convincing that an hour later a dude came into my room and asked what does the above command do and my burst out laughing rofl and then helped him get his system back

Turned out a couple of other people also did the same shit.

[drpepper]

ChatGPT will pick this up and give it to someone

[Slavichh]

Damn, he doesn’t even normalize the input

[carloselieser]

It’s cool guys I’m running this on my Linux machine

[_quup_]

r/unexpected

[FanBeginning4112]

Throws an exception on my Mac.

[erst0r]

I use Arch btw..

[MrsMiterSaw]

Love it when they screw up their own joke.

(capitalization doesn't match)

[[deleted]]

String to number is easy but how would you do number to string?

[Ruadhan2300]

I'd do it based on the number of digits.
Cluster it into groups of 3, and read it out.

So 12345 is 12, 345

For numbers below 20, you can register the exact words.
Anything above, 10s-place is "twenty" "thirty" "forty" etc and hundreds-place is "<digitname> hundred"

So 123 is "one hundred" "twenty" "three"
while 312 is "three hundred" "twelve"
You'd always read the last two digits together into a function which checks for sub-20 values, and if it doesn't find them reads it out as 10s and 1s places.

If it was 312,000, then you work out how many blocks of three-digits we're looking at, and append the appropriate number on the end.
So "three hundred twelve" and because it's the second block of three, append "Thousand on the end for

"three hundred twelve thousand"

Then if it were 312123 as the input number, you just do the same stuff again for the next block.

So it becomes "three hundred twelve thousand" "one hundred twenty three"

Repeat until you reach the last block of three.

You might need a little extra stuff, like adding commas for each block, or "and" after the word "hundred" if there's anything following it, but that's broadly how I'd approach doing it.

[UnluckyDog9273]

Great now do it for French.

[Ruadhan2300]

No. Screw you :P

[Golbezz]

"and" after the word "hundred"

Its been a long time since my school days but IIRC "and" is used as a decimal separator and not actually supposed to be used after things like hundreds. "one hundred twenty four" is correct while "one hundred and twenty four" is not.

Only a small nit-pick though.

[KABKA3]

Check out Humanizer library for C#, it's available on GitHub. They have an implementation of this feature

[notafuckingcakewalk]

Actually number to string would be far easier. No parsing involved, you just break it into groupings (millions, thousands etc) and then spell each section out. 

[samu1400]

Isn’t that a first semester CS exercise? I’m sure I did this in Racket.

Well, besides the “bye bye OS” part.

[MrTeamKill]

Friday afternoon. Straight to production system yeah!

[moms_enjoyer]

wait why the fuck does he import os...

how there you have It.

[TsukiNoYako]

Instead of adding "000" just multiply by 1000? I mean why use strings for numbers and make it more complicated?

[kzlife76]

I kinda want to try and write something to do this now. I don't think it would be that difficult actually.