Python allows programmers to pass additional arguments to functions via comments. Now armed with this knowledge head out and spread it to all code bases.
Feel free to use the code I wrote in your projects.
Link to the source code: https://github.com/raldone01/python_lessons_py/blob/v2.0.0/lesson_0_comments.ipynb
Image transcription:
# First we have to import comment_arguments from arglib
# Sadly arglib is not yet a standard library.
from arglib import comment_arguments
def add(*args, **kwargs):
c_args, c_kwargs = comment_arguments()
return sum([int(i) for i in args + c_args])
# Go ahead and change the comments.
# See how they are used as arguments.
result = add() # 1, 2
print(result)
# comment arguments can be combined with normal function arguments
result = add(1, 2) # 3, 4
print(result)
Output:
3
10
This is version v2.0.0 of the post: https://github.com/raldone01/python_lessons_py/tree/v2.0.0
Note:
v1.0.0 of the post can be found here: https://github.com/raldone01/python_lessons_py/tree/v1.0.0
Choosing lib as the name for my module was a bit devious.
I did it because I thought if I am creating something cursed why not go all the way?
Regarding misinformation:
I thought simply posting this in programmer humor was enough. Anyways, the techniques shown here are not yet regarded best practice. Decide carefully if you want to apply the shown concepts in your own code bases.
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Why, just why
What? There is no
libmodule.$ python3.13 -c 'import lib' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> import lib ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'lib' $OP wrote this add() function and has provided their own lib module in the source code.
Oh, so it’s not Python that’s cursed.
One of Python’s design philosophies is—or at least was—“we are all consenting adults here.” If you really want to turn Python into Brainfuck, the interpreter isn’t going to stop you.
TMI 😢
we need a programming horror community for stuff like this
This is an affront to nature. Comments shouldn’t even make it past the scanner.
bro what we are devolving
As if I needed more reasons to start away from python
Implementation of the
add()function is here: https://github.com/raldone01/python_lessons_py/blob/main/lib.pyYup, the function actually goes and finds the code that calls it and parses the comment.
Disgusting.
It is now directly in the notebook in the latest version: https://github.com/raldone01/python_lessons_py/blob/v2.0.0/lesson_0_comments.ipynb
That’s disgusting
Thank you, I hate it
Every day further from god’s light etc…
I assume the people freaking out about how dumb python is didn’t bother to read the code and have never coded in python in their life, because the behavior here is totally reasonable. Python doesn’t parse comments normally, which is what you’d expect, but if you tell it to read the raw source code and then parse the raw source code for the comments specifically, of course it does.
You would never, ever accidentally do this.
…you’d also never, ever do it on purpose.
This is some javascript level shit
That’s quite cool. But I’m not sure what’s the use case for it.
