Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Niklas Karlsson Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: naughty Python Date: 4 Jan 2026 16:31:23 GMT Organization: Department of Redundancy Department Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <79ScnZHy-uXnP8n0nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com> <4oycne7Wk4RQ6sj0nZ2dnZfqnPidnZ2d@giganews.com> <10j48fv$2t1h9$12@dont-email.me> <10j5qgf$3etcd$6@dont-email.me> <10j60bb$3hhps$1@dont-email.me> <10j6n9s$3q8au$2@dont-email.me> <10j71fr$3rnk5$1@paganini.bofh.team> <10j88fb$at2l$2@dont-email.me> <20260102084925.000040b5@gmail.com> <10j9dis$mp8i$15@dont-email.me> <10j9f57$ovkv$2@dont-email.me> <10ja075$ukrb$2@dont-email.me> <10jdv8g$22nf7$3@dont-email.me> X-Trace: individual.net 2dOuGEWNExsFV8dlKr/HlAEmyi2FBzMeec0vWcsmX5bWVViCbY Cancel-Lock: sha1:/qRn/49qL7PDoQyq5MvRUe4/cOw= sha256:wF4w/J/wnp+dtF5RX3NZQ7WvUdYLEYfWkyKgobeo9Fs= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:80474 alt.folklore.computers:233155 On 2026-01-04, Peter Flass wrote: > > I look at some code and wonder "how the heck has this ever worked?", but > the answer is that no one ever hit that combination of things before, or > used that option. That's certainly the sensible explanation, but I've had scenarios like that, even with my own code from the past, where I could swear up and down that I myself had successfully used that code in the exact scenario that would obviously break. Niklas -- Unfortunately, users are in `unstable' so shouldn't be installed in a production system. -- David Richerby