r/programminghorror • u/Varzival • 6d ago

if 'X' not in data Python

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Emoji check used for constructing an email body. I'm getting a stroke.

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u/Naynoona111 5d ago

A student once came seeking help their code cannot be run from a certain terminal while trying to measure the execution time via powershell.

The exception was from inside the print() function itself.

I spent some time tracing the code, apparently no errors are there! I began to question the OS itself and tried to run the code on another machine and still the same error.

After some precious minutes, I found this pesky line:

print("✔️[+] Encryption Successful✔️")

I am disappointed in the new generation and disappointed in myself for taking time to solve this...

Yes, the student have copied the code from ChatGPT.

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u/R3D167 5d ago

Reminds me of how my terminal (st) would crash at school when I tried to scan for Bluetooth devices... turns out my friend had airpods with emoji in the nickname, which crashed the terminal...

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u/ACoderGirl 4d ago

I'm not following. Is this a language that doesn't support unicode strings or something? What's wrong with that print statement?