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[–] semperverus 68 points 3 days ago

import os

Instant goblin behavior.

[–] daddy32 9 points 2 days ago

I got once disqualified from a programming competition for including cases like that - and I was even nice enough to not include the os.remove thing!

[–] brucethemoose 50 points 3 days ago

Terrible code.

os.remove does not remove folders, for that you want shutil.rmtree().

Best to just do the user data folder since that’s where you have permission anyway.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Is that the test driven programming everyone talks about?

[–] marcos 21 points 3 days ago

Exactly. You write the tests first so you know exactly when not to remove Windows.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

That would be true if there were tests. If you work in banking or any other field with very specific specs and regulations, the program is almost perfect and answers the demands of the client.

The undefined behavior is too much though, he should throw an exception instead.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

Code doesn't even pass the example test


mind your case sensitivity!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

It's that hacker 4chan again

[–] satans_methpipe 7 points 3 days ago

Localization dependent regex for this should be possible

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

doomed by case sensitivity

[–] MeatPilot 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Little Johnny "DROP TABLE ?" up to it again I see.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] MeatPilot 4 points 3 days ago

The boy ain't right.

[–] ByteJunk 1 points 3 days ago

Oh yes. Little Bobby Tables we call him.

https://xkcd.com/327

[–] iAvicenna 3 points 3 days ago

all he wanted was to get his cs101 hw done. all he got was computer reckt