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Re: Show HN: Wolverine: Give your Python scripts regenerative healing abilities

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Post by Frummy » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 9:14 AM UTC

hdjfkfbrufifj wrote: post #8

hdjfkfbrufifj wrote: post #7

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A factory that makes hammers shouldn't always be responsible for a hobbyist smashing their thumb, sound risk management is required by the user

Re: Show HN: Wolverine: Give your Python scripts regenerative healing abilities

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Post by shapefrog » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 9:25 AM UTC

It didnt pick up the bug in the else of the calculate function, presumably it is only running along the path that the script is running based on the inputs.

Re: Show HN: Wolverine: Give your Python scripts regenerative healing abilities

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Post by jasfi » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 11:57 AM UTC

plonq wrote: post #4

That seems… dangerous, to say the least

You're not suggesting that you won't put this immediately into Production are you?

Re: Show HN: Wolverine: Give your Python scripts regenerative healing abilities

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Post by biobootloader » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 4:49 PM UTC

jszymborski wrote: post #5

It's all fun and games until you get a subprocess.run(["rm", "/", "-rf"]) snuck in there that you fail to notice.

haha yes it did feel a bit wild just letting this run on my machine!

I wouldn't recommend running it on a script that's supposed to delete files

Re: Show HN: Wolverine: Give your Python scripts regenerative healing abilities

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Post by biobootloader » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 4:50 PM UTC

shapefrog wrote: post #12

It didnt pick up the bug in the else of the calculate function, presumably it is only running along the path that the script is running based on the inputs.

it will sometimes fix other bugs, but yeah the focus is on ones that caused the crash or are obvious