Why Would Prisons Ban My Book? Absurdities Rule the System (2022)

Re:Why Would Prisons Ban My Book? Absurdities Rule the Syste... by MBCook on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @09:51AM (#34246112)

Kansas bans the 3rd edition of O’Rielly’s Python Cookbook for…

“Describes procedures for construction of weapons, ammunition, bombs, incendiary devices”

Interesting.

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Re:Why Would Prisons Ban My Book? Absurdities Rule the Syste... by throwaway019254 on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @10:08AM (#34246348)

Of course, there's a section on distributing packages and making a stopwatch timer.

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Re:Why Would Prisons Ban My Book? Absurdities Rule the Syste... by null0ranje on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @10:25AM (#34246592)

My code certainly blows up all the time.

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Re:Why Would Prisons Ban My Book? Absurdities Rule the Syste... by londons_explore on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @10:01AM (#34246238)

There is another book with "cookbook" in the title which is banned in a lot of countries and matches that description...

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Re:Why Would Prisons Ban My Book? Absurdities Rule the Syste... by mnd999 on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @10:01AM (#34246247)

So pythonistas are anarchists now.

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Re:Why Would Prisons Ban My Book? Absurdities Rule the Syste... by HorkHunter on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @10:24AM (#34246577)

always have been, down with type tyranny

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Re:Why Would Prisons Ban My Book? Absurdities Rule the Syste... by fein on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @10:45AM (#34246891)

Python still forces indents for code structure. The true anarchy language would probably be PHP.

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