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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 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 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 1 day 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 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.