Hello World

Grant Edwards invalid at invalid.invalid
Mon Dec 22 11:26:44 EST 2014


On 2014-12-22, Steve Hayes <hayesstw at telkomsa.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 09:51:02 +1100, Steven D'Aprano><steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>
>>Obviously you don't write obfuscated code like this for production
>>use, except in such cases where you deliberately want to write
>>obfuscated code for production use.
>
> Yes, my initial reaction was "that's awesome".
>
> And my second thought was that it was scary.
>
> I ran it. It worked, and printed "Hello world". I was awed.
>
> But what if I had run it and it reformatted my hard disk?
>
> How would I have known that it would or wouldn't do that?

Well not running it as root would be start....

-- 
Grant




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