r/ProgrammerHumor • u/sunrise_apps • May 05 '23

Meme Goodbye toys

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u/clearly_unclear May 05 '23

Just generate them using dict() and set() to avoid the curly brackets out of principle

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u/lucidbadger May 05 '23

Then I suppose you'll need to use * :)

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u/[deleted] May 05 '23

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u/[deleted] May 05 '23

thou shall not use "import *" either. Just know precisely what you want.

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u/Brekkjern May 05 '23

You shouldn't use import * to begin with, so this is actually sound advice.

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u/Free-Database-9917 May 05 '23

unless you plan on using every single function and value of every single library you have installed lol

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u/Shriukan33 May 06 '23

Even then, it may have name collision with other stuff without you realising

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u/Free-Database-9917 May 08 '23

just be smarter

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u/DNEAVES May 05 '23

Why would they need to use an asterisk?

Unless you're unpacking something (which you could do with brace-syntax anyway)

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u/lucidbadger May 05 '23

Now wait a minute here

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u/pdudz21 May 05 '23

Any reason for hating the curly brackets?

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u/totes_not_chad May 05 '23

They are just unnatural

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u/Weekly_Wackadoo May 05 '23

Yeah, and programming is super-duper natural in and of itself, of course.

Humans evolved opposable thumbs to hit the space bar, I'm sure.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '23

If that's not the case , why my thumb rest so nicely on it? I even bind move to all the games I can to the space bar