The python default zipfile module has a couple lines of code that make unzipping fail when headers mismatch the actual file names and the python dev message board has 6+ year old message saying you should comment them out / change to a warning and it makes me mad
the beauty of python is finding bits of code that literally are guaranteed to always fail but they've survived in the codebase for years bc they're in some if branch that nobody ever runs
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If you really want to get mad pick any basic POSIX utility made by the GNU people and skim the source
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Ah yes. Yesterday I found a bit of Python that was supposed to convert a string containing true or false into a Boolean but it was actually just checking for a non-empty string. Since nobody had tried passing false yet, it worked.
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i felt this in my soul
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Totally! Python is one of the few languages that should have close to 100% unit test coverage. Doesn’t solve this problem completely but mitigates it’s effect!
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sometimes the branches are also guaranteed to never run smh
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Is it specific to python? Or to dynamic type systems?
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... guaranteed to fail only in production :(
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