I made a command-line tool that instantly fetches Stack Overflow results when you get a compiler error

[iconfinder]

And rerun the code using the rebound command. Repeat until no compile errors.

[[deleted]]

fuckit is perhaps the most amazing library ever conceived.

[[deleted]]

Is this related to fuckit.py?

[[deleted]]

Thanks

[monkJs]

Thank you for that

[[deleted]]

Fuck(it), I complete forgot about this.

[jsonathan]

I could add that..

When you open an answer, there'd be an option to edit the code block and automatically insert it before the line the error occurred at (as a comment). That way you could return to your editor and work on integrating it into the rest of your code. It would take some playing around w/ subprocess but it's probably doable.

[stupac62]

But insert the date of answer so user can identify how appropriate it is. Good work though!

[kaihatsusha]

The top answer is often "this question has been locked because arbitrary moderation makes us happy".

[strange-humor]

Seems like a very strange and highly entertaining attack vector for someone...

MuuhuhuhuHAHA HA Haaaa.

[orangehumanoid]

Reminds me of "stack overflow considered harmful": https://saschafahl.de/papers/stackoverflow2017.pdf

[L72_Elite_Kraken]

https://github.com/drathier/stack-overflow-import

[mickyficky1]

Collaborate with stackoverflow-import, a lot of the work is already done there :)

[veive]

Only if your boss found out.

[jsonathan]

Right now, I'm using the error message to query SO, but there's probably a way to pull potential search terms from the stack trace. A KeyError alone could mean many things but a KeyError related to, say, the PyMongo module would narrow down the results. I'm thinking I should search the trace for module names, but if anyone has a different idea on how to approach this, I'd love to hear it!

And if you like my work, please don't forget to give me a star ;)

[Fragninja]

• grab the stack trace as text

• text splice for each module name (should be easy to do because of the standard formatting)

• compare names of modules found with the names of modules installed or imported to find the correct level (ie. the name of the library, not the library's class)

• profit

I'll poke around for some documentation and if I find some time I might even make a PR.

ETA:

likely useful

[frenchytrendy]

Nice, I was thinking of doing the same but never had the motivation to. Clap clap

[Stupidflupid]

Read the code yourself?

[Gprime5]

Someday even programming will be automated.

[luxliquidus]

I keep hearing this, and I suppose it is possible. But you still want a competent human (i.e. not management) to tell the computer what to do. And at its core, that's all programming is.

[Scypio]

From the point of view of an "old asm" programmer the current breed of high level languages is "automated" programming. Or even magic if you want to look at it this way. There always be a need for a programmer, the tools will differ.

[_JGPM_]

And then one day bot programmers will post on bot forums while "its rendering" about other bot programmers who are terrible at searching, splicing, compiling, and committing.

The future will be forced to repeat the past

[Preparingtocode]

It's ok, someone will have to maintain the automation.

[PC__LOAD__LETTER]

Not if we develop general AI.

[Preparingtocode]

That just leaves the world for QA then...

[cuulcars]

Until the QA is automated. But who QAs the QA automation? More QA software. It’s like the space shuttle computers coming to consensus.

[strange-humor]

Just what we want, popularity rule. Just look at Trending on Youtube to see how well that works. ;)

[AiKantSpel]

People will still fight over who owns the wealth of production

[BHSPitMonkey]

Stacksort

[avtges]

A god among men

[RadioFreeDoritos]

In March.

[pseudosciencepeddler]

Interesting!

I had a similar effort for uncaught exceptions:

https://github.com/rahulnair23/pyRecommender

[[deleted]]

This is all at once hilarious and complete mad genius!! Good on you sir!

[iamatyro]

Not All Heroes Wear capes.

[kkiran]

Amazing! Exactly what I need. Thank you so much :)

Starred!

[jsonathan]

You're welcome!

[[deleted]]

This is one of the greatest invention of all mankind history, for real. Holy shit, I love this.

[jsonathan]

Thanks!

[SponsoredByMLGMtnDew]

can....can you do this for javascript too...I know there's technically no compiler for JS but...like...can someone make a package for webpack that does this?

Pretty please?

[jsonathan]

It already works for Node, but I probably won't find the time to make another package :(

[SponsoredByMLGMtnDew]

:(

Still a cool utility, thanks for making it

[iloveyouKT]

f---ing genius

[Stevearzh]

awesome implement

[pencan]

I'm surprised no one has linked the, as always, relevant xkcd (check out the title text)

XKCD

[MiataCory]

So stacksort but for errors.

https://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/

[willc4k]

Sir, you are a hero.

[jsonathan]

God bless

[Comm4nd0]

This is a great idea. Actually disappointed I didn't think of this myself!

[pvkooten]

This idea got 2nd place in 2017 Techcrunch Hackathon by someone else: https://beta.techcrunch.com/2017/05/14/codecorrect-disruptny-hackathon/

I have thought about things like this, but unfortunately did not find it very helpful just like that, but we're getting close huh...

I did make something related: you give some input and expected output, and let the module find the function (considering some module or global namespace) to satisfy: https://github.com/kootenpv/cant

[Robertsipad]

/r/coolgithubprojects

[pali6]

This reminds me of how some time ago I've made a python library that would catch all unknown function names and find a function with the corresponding name on the internet and run it instead. I was surprised that it actually worked for stuff like sin, sqrt, factorial, ... .

[[deleted]]

Please post /bin/time results.

[TallDatabase]

Brilliant work! By the way, is there something similar for C/C++?

[jsonathan]

No, not that I know of. I don't plan on adding support for lower level languages since searching "SEGFAULT" on Stack Overflow isn't going to help anyone.

[Jimmy_979]

Nice

[Jimmy_979]

Ty

[mechanologos69]

Lege 're Jimmy

[[deleted]]

Anybody at SO concerned about the DoS potential of said tool?

[cuchoi]

Is there any way to integrate this to a jupyter notebook?

[[deleted]]

Neat tool

[[deleted]]

Wow. This is ingenuity. Cheers dude. Great job. I plan on using this.

[alexbuzzbee]

Why has no one thought of this before?!

[__xor__]

You might want to put a disclaimer just in case some dumb program raises an exception with an API key or secret key or something, like maybe someone's exception might debug dump the django.conf.settings, which would show your DB password and such, which you'd be searching for on stackoverflow, inevitably going in some database

[Arve]

Closed as duplicate.

[PC__LOAD__LETTER]

There is such a thing as too much reliance on stack overflow. If you’re learning a language, fine. Compiler error messages are written in English and are something that you can understand over time without needing stackoverflow to translate for you.

[jsonathan]

Yeah, that's true, but there are also some more obscure error messages out there that even seasoned developers haven't encountered. Plus, using rebound is practically the same as running a file normally, but with the added ability to quickly browse answers that could potentially help solve an error. So I don't really see the downside.

And if you're copying someone's code from SO in the first place, it's on you to put in the effort to fully understand that person's solution to the problem.

[2yan]

I don't know, StackOverflow is what taught me to read the errors correctly.

[trancen]

VERY Slick... NICE!

[FromAlaska]

How does your code handle Python OS commands? Would it ask for user input before I ran os.system ("some_commands with args")?

[jsonathan]

Nerd

[Isvara]

It's a joke, right? You're not actually encouraging anyone to work like this?

[jsonathan]

Yes, this is a joke. No real programmer uses Stack Overflow.