StackOverflow Importer – Import code from Stack Overflow as Python modules

Re:StackOverflow Importer – Import code from Stack Overflow ... by 45h34jh53k4j on Thursday November 03, 2016 @08:16PM (#12869366)

Cool joke. Post leftpad it needs a disclaimer lest someone actually do this for real.

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Re:StackOverflow Importer – Import code from Stack Overflow ... by ramblenode on Thursday November 03, 2016 @08:38PM (#12869454)

I'm kind of shocked how many people here are talking as though they would actually include this in a codebase.

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Re:StackOverflow Importer – Import code from Stack Overflow ... by noescape on Thursday November 03, 2016 @08:44PM (#12869493)

What if, somehow, there was a guarantee that the code can't harm your machine -- would you use it then?

This isn't a joke.

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Re:StackOverflow Importer – Import code from Stack Overflow ... by Alupis on Thursday November 03, 2016 @09:06PM (#12869595)

It's not just about harming your machine - it can harm your* data, or data passing through your* system!

* Where "your" can mean you, your employer, your customer, another company, etc.

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Re:StackOverflow Importer – Import code from Stack Overflow ... by noescape on Friday November 04, 2016 @06:34AM (#12871537)

What if it can't harm your data, or data passing through your system?

What if it can't harm anything.

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Re:StackOverflow Importer – Import code from Stack Overflow ... by emodendroket on Friday November 04, 2016 @09:37AM (#12872411)

How could a system that executed arbitrary code ever make such guarantees? I mean sure, if there were a magical thing that only ever produced correct code for what you wanted to do I guess people would use it.

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