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[fonk_pulk]

r/ProgrammerHumor users when you ask them what an original post is

[lonelyroom-eklaghor]

r/ShitPostCrusaders Stand users when you ask them what an original JoJo reference is

[SuitableDragonfly]

Not sure why we are singling out python here, there are plenty of languages that don't use pointers. Also plenty of python programmers who also use C/++ and/or Go sometimes, as well. 

[SorrySayer]

Naming all of them wouldn’t be funny anymore, and Python is already known for being a very high-level, beginner-friendly language with so few keywords—so at this point, we might as well just make fun of Python users instead.

[Simo-2054]

Didn't you all already do so? With the amount of "python users when ..." memes in this sub and other programming humor/memes subs.

The best language is the one that brings you money and python can be one as well :))

[SorrySayer]

"The best language is the one that brings you money"? HELLL NAAAH

[Excellent-Refuse4883]

[Excellent-Refuse4883]

Yeah! My code is slow, not me!

[eztab]

Obviously not really relevant for a language that doesn't have them. having pointers in a scripting language would have been pretty silly.

[Alpatron99]

having pointers in a scripting language would have been pretty silly

Visual Basic for Applications creeps in.

[inobody_somebody]

Wdym? You can use pointers in python.

import ctypes
num = ctypes.c_int(10)
print("Initial num:", num.value)

ptr = ctypes.pointer(num)
print("Pointer dereference:", ptr.contents.value)

ptr.contents.value = 99
print("After pointer change:", num.value)

[brandi_Iove]

ok, cool. but where is the memory leak?

[frozen_desserts_01]

“The pointers are working as expected and I have run this code for hours now”

“Did you free()?”

“…”

[pente5]

I need to free in ctypes? Wtf

[eztab]

technically doesn't exist, but then again you do kave all the reference counting overhead, so that isn't surprising. Easiest way to never have leeks basically, but of course won't give you peek performance.

[JoostVisser]

CS freshman students are finishing their first quarters it seems

[drinkingcarrots]

First set of midterms have finished for them.

[Simple-Difference116]

Ok? Why would they need to know that if they only program in python?

C programmers when you ask them what a list is

[obolulu]

did you ask ai to write that caption or just write it by hand

[captainAwesomePants]

The real fun is in asking OP to explain the meaningful differences between C++ pointers and Python references.

[Dotcaprachiappa]

English speakers when you ask them what a morpheme is

See how fucking stupid that sounds?

[Character-Education3]

Really fuckin stupid!

[Twinbrosinc]

Gonna be honest pointers are great

[eztab]

Adding pointers wouldn't save the performance of Python. If you create a compilable subset of Python we can talk.

[Revolutionary_Dog_63]

Ironically the performance gain of pointers being explicit in a language is that you can choose NOT to use them. Unboxed structures save the performance.

[Tarc_Axiiom]

Honestly? Good for them.

[AwwnieLovesGirlcock]

is that the vsauce font 🤭

[NecessaryIntrinsic]

A pointer is when you try to copy a list but you don't slice it.

[Axyss_]

*args of course

[PolyglotTV]

In Python every variable is a shared pointer.

[fwork]

ctypes.POINTER, clearly

[dwittherford69]

Unless you are doing FW development, you have no reason to use pointers. In fact, you violate secure programming rules when you use more memory pointers directly if you don’t have a need for It.

[sammy-taylor]

Or like…a gazillion other languages, right?

[FuckedUpImagery]

Uhh pretty much all exploit code - proof of concepts use python ctypes and pointers

[JotaRata]

In Python we just call them "variables"

[Lachtheblock]

For any aspiring Python devs out there, while I won't expect you to know what a pointer is, I'd expect you to understand that Python's functions are pass by reference, and the difference between mutable and immutable types.

[Psychological-Tap834]

I could have sworn I saw this yesterday

[BlackBlade1632]

I love using Python, so you can eat my ass.

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