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isInHell = 'true' (fedia.io)

submitted 2 years ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Given the warning about capitalization, the best possible case is that they're using ast.literal_eval() rather than throwing untrusted input into eval().

Err, I guess they might be comparing strings to 'True' and are choosing to be really strict about capitalization for some reason.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago

Yeah. Maybe .to_lower() is really expensive in their environment, lol.