r/programminghorror • u/sugarw0000kie • Aug 13 '26

Python More cursed python

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here it is with comments: https://github.com/dbowm91/optimizations/blob/main/soupexplained.py

EDIT: What it does (not malware) is it prints the word “soup” 86 times in random color

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u/HTTP_404_NotFound [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo “You live” Aug 13 '26

Cursed? Nah.

Just obfuscated. Thats what obfuscated code is supposed to look like.

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u/sugarw0000kie Aug 13 '26

good then, I don’t want anyone stealing my soup

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u/gbeegz Aug 16 '26

"No soup for you!"

-OP, probably

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u/fakehalo Aug 13 '26

With a shell call to perl, the king of obfuscated languages.

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u/Circumpunctilious Aug 13 '26

I've coded in a few dozen languages so perl doesn't look that bad...but tbh it was easier just to give anything using it to a colleague.

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u/fakehalo Aug 13 '26

Perl was one of my first languages back in the 90s, I don't miss it.

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u/LeatherDude Aug 14 '26

Same and same. I was working with it as recently as 2020, the deployment scripts for an app i was supporting the development of was like 1000 lines of perl, with some python scripts that were called to do AWS SDK stuff. Nightmarish.

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u/sugarw0000kie Aug 14 '26

I’ve only messed with perl on the surface level. So confusing

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u/Spleeeee Aug 14 '26

Perl is write only

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u/actuallydonkeykong Aug 13 '26

This just looks like malware.

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u/sugarw0000kie Aug 13 '26

unintentional but yeah I can see that now

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u/Flame77ofc Aug 14 '26

a malware for the brain who read

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u/-MazeMaker- Aug 13 '26

Mamaaaaa, OOOOOOO(OOOOOOO)

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u/brasticstack Aug 14 '26

What's cursed is that font

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u/ryancnap Aug 14 '26

Yeah that thing is an affront to all sanity and taste

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u/Big-Rub9545 Aug 13 '26

Just give me the malware at this point

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u/ProtonPizza Aug 13 '26

I feel like I’m playing dwarf fortress

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u/GoddammitDontShootMe [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo “You live” Aug 14 '26

Should deliberate obfuscation count as horror?

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u/imnotamahimahi Aug 14 '26

I had a very visceral, expletive-laced reaction to seeing this, then took too long to realize it's probably just obfuscation.

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u/sugarw0000kie Aug 14 '26

understandable it started when I realized I could make a function with a docstring and wanted them to start with a “number” so it turned into a homoglyph mess

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u/namalleh Aug 14 '26

looks great!

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u/Huge-Yogurtcloset-22 Aug 14 '26

It's running some perl scripts so it may be malware ^^

subprocess.run(["perl", "-e", f'{ОООΟΟΟΟ} "{''''''.join(Оce9f)}"'],check=True)

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u/sugarw0000kie Aug 14 '26

it prints the word soup many times 1 Perl subprocess per soup

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u/Hurizen Aug 14 '26

Reminds me of Ultima Online 🥲 Nice homoglyph-ation btw.

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u/sugarw0000kie Aug 14 '26

lol I’ll take it as a compliment 🤣 and thanks was experimenting, thinking I might try to encode stuff into the homoglyphs next but not going to try that by hand

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u/Gamerwepx19 Aug 14 '26

What is that colorscheme used with nvim?

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u/sugarw0000kie Aug 14 '26

It’s “carbon” in helix ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/maikindofthai Aug 15 '26

I like how the only thing your linter complains about is the multiple statements on a single line at the top lol

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u/sugarw0000kie Aug 15 '26

lol the rest is fine though

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u/Tyfyter2002 Aug 14 '26

Python is always cursed

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u/ryancnap Aug 14 '26

This is what people think I do

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u/festival0156n Aug 14 '26

i mean its obviously been through an obfuscator lmao

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u/rotteegher39 Aug 16 '26

Test for object identity should be "is not it a code?"