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[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 66 points 10 months ago

import os

Instant goblin behavior.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months 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.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is that the test driven programming everyone talks about?

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

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

[–] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months 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.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 20 points 10 months ago

Code doesn't even pass the example test

mind your case sensitivity!

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago

It's that hacker 4chan again

[–] subignition@fedia.io 10 points 10 months ago

doomed by case sensitivity

[–] daddy32@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months 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!

[–] satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Localization dependent regex for this should be possible

[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

*Bobby.

[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

The boy ain't right.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Oh yes. Little Bobby Tables we call him.

https://xkcd.com/327

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

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