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Blog post where someone used Python quirks to evaluate false == true (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Does anyone remember an old blog post where someone used various Python language hacks to override boolean primitives, such that the statement false == true evaluated as true? I'm 90% sure it was python, but maybe it was some other language.

I've been looking for that post recently, but haven't had any luck.

Thanks to antagonistic for finding it! I guess it was less of an "exploit", and more of a "please don't touch the loaded foot-gun"

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[–] who@feddit.org 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Python doesn't have true or false keywords, nor any other primitives by those names.

So either you're thinking of a different language, or different identifiers, or someone assigned equal values to variables with those names and then blogged about it.

[–] Antagnostic@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

This changed in 3.0 to my knowledge. Ref: https://wiki.python.org/moin/Python3.0#f

[–] who@feddit.org 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

That change is about True and False, not true and false. If OP was thinking of the former pair, it would seem my "different identifiers" guess was correct.