On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 20:37:25 +0100, Paul Rubin <phr-2...@nightsong.com>
wrote:
I just came across this (https://gist.github.com/1208215):
import sys
import ctypes
pyint_p = ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_byte*sys.getsizeof(5))
five = ctypes.cast(id(5), pyint_p)
print(2 + 2 == 5) # False
five.contents[five.contents[:].index(5)] = 4
print(2 + 2 == 5) # True (must be sufficiently large values of 2
there...)
Heh. The author is apparently anonymous, I guess for good reason.
Someone's been writing FORTRAN again :-)
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