Writing Bad Code is Fun

Just Don’t Do This At Work

To my fellow software engineers — It’s been a long day at work, and you’re probably tired after a whole day of writing proper production-grade code. It’s time to relax, and what better way to unwind is there than writing some nonsensical bad code? Here we go.

1) Double Negatives

score = something.getScore()
if not not score >= 90:
    print("You get a distinction")
else:
    print("no distinction")

Or even:

# a function that adds 2 numbers together
def add(x, y):
    return x - (-y)

2) How To Screw Up Your Own Class

class Dog():
    def __init__(self, name, age):
        self.name = name
        self.age = age
    def __getattribute__(self, attr):
        if attr == "__dict__":
            return "hehehe"
dog = Dog("Rocky", 5)
print(dog.name)       # None
print(dog.age)        # None

For those of you who aren’t too familiar, the __dict__ attribute stores all other attributes. If we call object.name, we are actually doing object.__dict__["name"].

The __getattribute__ magic method defines what happens when we try to get an attribute from an object…