Awful code of the week

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 08:03 am, Tim Delaney wrote:

> On 7 August 2016 at 16:54, Steven D'Aprano <
> steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> 
>> Seen in the office IRC channel:
>>
>>
>> (13:23:07) fred:     near_limit = []
>> (13:23:07) fred:     near_limit.append(1)
>> (13:23:07) fred:     near_limit = len(near_limit)
>> (13:23:09) fred: WTF
>>
> 
> Assuming you'e not talking about the semantics of this specific code
> (which could be reduced to near_limit = 1), 


That's exactly it. They're three consecutive lines of code.





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