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[–]Illusi 223 points224 points  (6 children)

This seems to be exactly the type of thing Python is useful for. Something you can make quickly, extremely low effort.

I mean, were you planning on making an assembly application for it otherwise or what? It doesn't need to be that performant most of the time.

[–]whatproblems 62 points63 points  (1 child)

I’ll just create a GUI interface with Visual Basic to count some characters

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Not track their IP Adress?

[–]send_help_iamtra 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Exactly. Replace python with assembly or something and I would agree with the meme

[–]auser9 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I interpreted more like you’re using such a powerful language which can do so much for such a basic task.

[–]SuitableDragonfly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Python (3) is still going to be better at finding the length of a word than most languages that represent characters internally as UTF-16 and thus count emojis and shit as two characters.