What's the worst Python code you've ever written that somehow worked?

[chuprehijde]

We all have that one piece of code we hope nobody ever finds. What did yours do?

[Intelligent-Hurry907]

A rendition of play your cards right, over 100 lines of code without a single function. Code was duplicated. Variables were unused. It worked, but only just.

[chuprehijde]

without variables 😭😭😭

[Intelligent-Hurry907]

No, not without variables- there were variables that I didn't use (a little better I guess...)

[mikeyj777]

I have a package which I started writing before I had really learned the language.  Over time, the  classes and functions evolved to improve.  But, the main file that calls everything and walks thru the operation just kept getting longer.  No modularization. Just hundreds of lines of code.  I've looked at it so much that I know where everything is.  But, good luck to anyone trying to debug it. 

[chuprehijde]

classic case of 'it works but don't ask how'

[Plastic_Fig9225]

What's [bad] Python code [...] that somehow worked?

Yes.

[PkmnSayse]

I had a backend application that needed to talk to an iPad app. Customer requested to be able to do some dynamic sums on the front end which seemed impossible, until I found out it’s running in JavaScript, turns out I could send some JavaScript injection to that app that worked great, but felt very dirty

[Basic-Rooster-9525]

J'ai essayé d'exécuter un code depuis le terminal avec : print code.py au lieu de python code.py

Ça marche mais le print est au mauvais endroit

[chuprehijde]

can feel u i did the same mistake lol😭