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suixo on Sept 26, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Programming Idioms

I love the "check if integer addition will overflow" in Python:

def adding_will_overflow(x, y): return False

I have no idea if it's actually true but I find that funny.

ORioN63 on Sept 26, 2019 [–]

Yeah, integers can't overflow. It will just use all of your memory.

Unless you're using a C bind, like numpy.

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