Can I write fun / esoteric python code here?

[marian (marian K.)]

Hello,
just asking if I can post here (probably in Help category) some python code that is funny / convoluted / obfuscated or esoteric… (various adjectives can be given). Something like easter-eggs.

I am lacking this kind of section in this forum…
But I think it can be quite educative.

(Of course unless the code is malicious, but I don’t mean this kind of stuff.)

M.

[FelixFourcolor]

I don’t know what category would be appropriate, but (until the mods intervene) go for it, I want to see them.

By the way since you like easter eggs check this out GitHub - OrkoHunter/python-easter-eggs: Curated list of all the easter eggs and hidden jokes in Python

[pf_moore (Paul Moore)]

The Python help topic is probably the best place.

[CAM-Gerlach]

Yes, as Paul stated Python Help (#users) is currently our catch-all place for such things, absent a proper #general category (as I’ve advocated in the past, but that’s a separate discussion). I’m not sure how much interest you’ll get, but it can’t hurt to try, I suppose.

[marian (marian K.)]

it’s out

Let's type type type ... yes it's a valid python code

Did you know that checking for a type can actually be quite funny? Because type(type) returns just ‘type class’, which can be chained further like: type(type)('abc') which returns final ‘str class’ of abc string. But that’s not all, there are other ‘builtin’ things that when called in type() return ‘type class’. For example type(int) ; type(set) and even type(filter) ; type(zip) return just ‘type class’, which can be similarly chained like: type(filter)('abc') which returns final ‘st…

[Resuscitating (rax)]

I don’t know about doing that on the forums here, but if you have Discord, there’s a Python Discord server (unofficial) that has a channel for esoteric Python. You might enjoy checking that out.

[marian (marian K.)]

yes, I know of it (on Discord), but it’s more like an instant chat… and I don’t like the ‘fleeting stream’ concept, it’s hard to search within.

Forums are better . -thanks for this one!

(I know there are even such like: Quora; CodeGolf on StackExchange; and many more articles/blogs on internet;

and Curated list of Easter Eggs (mentioned already);
and Curated list of Python oddities (this should be the more decent name)

and interestingly even official Python documentation / website has some examples! Check out: Is it possible to write obfuscated one-liners in Python? )

M.