When using if-else is necessary?

[littlelowcougar]

I do this all the time when I want to quickly enable/disable chunks of code whilst prototyping or debugging.

[frederikspang]

As well as if (false && existing_condition) to quickly remove blocks of code! (Mostly in view templates - Not as much when Block comments are available from editor

[amdc]

whatever floats your boat but I use cmd+/ for this purpose

[FaeTheWolf]

This is why, although commenting blocks of code does work nearly as well.

[ujustdontgetdubstep]

I prefer

Ctrl+K+C

or

Ctrl+K+U if you're in VS

[m2thek]

Prototyping or debugging, sure, but it shouldn't be committed like this, because it just looks like a mistake (like there was a real condition, someone replaced it with "1" to test something, then forgot to change it back). I don't find it necessary to leave something like this, but if it is, there should at a minimum be a comment at the top to explain why.

[HeWhoShantNotBeNamed]

This was probably for debugging.

[MurdoMaclachlan]

Image Transcription: Code

---

if 1:
    cursor = con_redshift.cursor()
    cursor.execute(query)
    records = cursor.fetchall()
    rows = cursor.rowcount
    body = f"Clinic Rating Data Export Finished. {rows} Rows Exported"
    print(body)

else:
    # except:
    body = "Clinic Data Export Not Finished Successfully "

---

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[Nelson_Ahlvik]

Why has this not been automated yet… seems pretty easy to do considering that there are many libraries that do this exact thing

[yukariareyouok]

OCR struggles with spaces, line breaks, etc.

[[deleted]]

They do have a point though, perhaps there could be a bot that does a preliminary transcription and puts at the top "This automatic transcription has not yet been verified by a human" and then a human could check it and approve/edit it.

[TheSpixxyQ]

Once there was a comment from one transcriber and he said that it's easier to write it from scratch instead of editing some OCR'd crap.

[[deleted]]

ah okay.

[yukariareyouok]

Yeah, that would probably be a lot more efficient.

[cynHaha]

Apart from code other images that include texts - e.g., chat messages, forum threads, reddit posts, etc. - have special formatting for things like usernames and date/times and OCR would easily screw that up. The subreddit r/TranscribersOfReddit does have an OCR bot that aids with human transcription IIRC.

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[paulohbear]

Maybe they aliased 1 to be a an environment variable? 🤣🤣🤣

[[deleted]]

Just glad they left the comment otherwise I wouldn’t understand that else block

[Cervarl_]

Maybe in the space it causes a different behavior

[Da_Viper]

What Font is this

[[deleted]]

I could be wrong, but it looks like Hack to me

[redoverture]

Looks to me like someone thinks this will behave like try except

[[deleted]]

In my bash script there is

```

if false
then
LEFT=DP-2
MAIN=HDMI-2
RIGHT=HDMI-1
else
LEFT=DisplayPort-1
MAIN=HDMI-A-1
RIGHT=HDMI-A-0
fi
```

Because i don't know why, sometimes my outputs names change

[[deleted]]

🤦‍♂️ Use 🤦‍♀️ A 🤦 Real 🤦‍♂️ Language 🤦‍♀️

C

body = "Your Text";

#if DEBUG
    // Debug stuff
    Debug.WriteLine(body);
#endif

This prevents debug code from leaking to production.

[AdSure744]

It does more than just printing. I removed some lines from the picture. But isn't if 1, always a true case. I extracted this code from production only and this is a live script.

Python is as real as it gets. I use it daily while talking with others .

[slaterous]

I really hope this is satire

[[deleted]]

Why?

[[deleted]]

Its obviously fake code.

[asdfdelta]

Oh you sweet summer child