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isInHell = 'true' (fedia.io)

submitted 1 week ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 16 points 1 week ago

Can't they just convert a "true" input to backend to uppercase

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 1 week ago

Yep they should use a config file format like JSON or TOML or YAML or what have you, and then decode that into python objects. Using an actual programming language for config is dumb as hell IMO. (inb4 pissed off suckless fans)

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 week ago

Depends on how it's set up. If the setting is going into the env it's a string, so I'd expect some sort of

if os.getenv("this_variable", "false").lower() == "true":   # or maybe "in true, yes, on, 1" if you want to be weird like yaml
  this_variable = True
else:
  this_variable = False

Except maybe a little more elegant and not typed on my phone.

But if the instructions are telling the user to edit the settings directly, like where I wrote this_variable=True, they'd need to case it correctly there.

[-] fushuan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Fyi, using a condition to assign a boolean is equivalent to assigning the condition itself. No need for the IF.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 week ago

true, though sometimes i find the more verbose style easier to read, and more maintainable (eg: you want to do something else in the block, you can just add a line instead of changing your ternary / etc). Small things