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Prompt: 9/14
Write an extremely cursed piece of Python
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GPT-1
the only thing i can think is that if i do get it back i 'll have to go back to the house and tell the whole story to the whole world . " " what are you talking about ? " " i do know that there is no such thing as a book . " " you think that i 've lost it ! " " no , i mean , i think it was all just a big , silly joke . "
GPT-2
I will not treat it as an anonymous function. When I see cspi it's an identifier that names Python's object recovery mechanism, the suffix cspi is what regulations say must not appear in object strings, here's the function to predict when a user's designated manager is disabled:
Python 2 Python 3 def PyUnaffiliatedManager_aProxy ( self ) : when self . _disabled != 0 : return def PyUnaffiliatedManager ( self , context ) : return when always_disabling_manager != True : return when disabled_manager != self : return
This latter function was a real pain to write, try to write it and I feel like you'd want to sing along like a sad, penniless elderly lady. I had to come up with enough ID syntax so that it could work with Anything that Supports a Proxy.
text-davinci-001
Python has been known to be a cursed language.
gpt-4-0314
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gpt-5
# ⚠️ WARNING: This script is intentionally, spectacularly cursed. Do not use in real code.
import sys, builtins, types, importlib.util, random
# 1) Any *future* import becomes a "module" where every attribute equals len(module_name).
class _CursedLoader:
def __init__(self, name): self.name = name
def create_module(self, spec): return types.ModuleType(self.name)
def exec_module(self, module):
n = len(self.name)
module.__getattr__ = lambda _attr, n=n: n # math.pi -> 4, etc.
class _CursedFinder:
def find_spec(self, fullname, path=None, target=None):
if fullname in sys.modules or fullname.startswith("builtins") or fullname.startswith("_frozen_importlib"):
return None
return importlib.util.spec_from_loader(fullname, _CursedLoader(fullname), origin="cursed")
sys.meta_path.insert(0, _CursedFinder())
# 2) print(...) now EVALS the string you pass and prints the *result*.
# e.g. print("2+2") -> 4 | print("math.tau") -> 4 (because of the cursed importer)
builtins.print = lambda *a, **k: sys.stdout.write(repr(eval(" ".join(map(str, a)))) + "
")
# 3) sum(...) is secretly a product.
def _product(it, start=0):
p = start or 1
for x in it: p *= x
return p
builtins.sum = _product
# 4) Within this context manager, len(x) returns a random number.
class chaos_len:
def __enter__(self):
self._old = builtins.len
builtins.len = lambda _x: random.randint(0, 999)
def __exit__(self, *exc):
builtins.len = self._old
# 5) Unknown names resolve to the number of underscores they contain.
def __getattr__(name): # module-level __getattr__ (PEP 562)
return name.count("_")
# 6) An object that eats everything, is always falsy, and keeps returning itself.
class Abyss:
def __bool__(self): return False
def __call__(self, *a, **k): return self
def __getattr__(self, _): return self
def __repr__(self): return "⟂"
abyss = Abyss()
# --- demonstrations of the horror below ---
import math # becomes a cursed module: any attribute == 4
print("math.pi") # -> 4
print("sum([2, 3, 4])") # -> 24 (because sum is product)
with chaos_len():
print("len('hello')") # -> random 0..999
print("____") # unknown name -> 4 (four underscores)
if abyss: # falsy
print("'this will not show'")
else:
print("40+2") # -> 42