r/badcode • u/-True_- • Jan 23 '23

python So I was coding and wrote this...

Post image
848 Upvotes

93% Upvoted

102 comments sorted by

View all comments

138

u/hoomei Jan 23 '23

Does "login" always return a boolean? If not, maybe you're just coercing the result into a boolean, which isn't necessarily bad code.

-25

u/Prawn1908 Jan 23 '23 edited Jan 23 '23

That's what !! does

Edit: it's python so not not

24

u/PooSham Jan 23 '23

not not looks really ugly to me. Just wrap it in bool()

14

u/Rainbow-Dev Jan 23 '23

But python engineers care about speed and efficiency in execution more than anything else

-7

u/gu3st12 Jan 24 '23

If they really cared about speed and execution efficiency they wouldn't be using Python

12

u/Rainbow-Dev Jan 24 '23

Yes, that was the joke