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Show HN: Magic Functions in Python

by dbieber on 6/6/22, 2:33 PM with 1 comments

• by ttymck on 6/11/22, 2:00 AM

  Thanks for sharing, and thanks especially for the accompanying write-up. I love seeing this kind of "envelope pushing" in python -- things that make you stop and think "just because we can, does that mean we _should_?"

  It reminds me of something I hacked together a while back: compatlib[0]. I knew as I was writing it that it would be a bad idea to use in "production", but felt it was interesting nonetheless. I've been meaning to write a post similar to yours: explicitly warning against using compatlib for anything serious :)

  [0]https://github.com/tmkontra/compatlib