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ashleney · 2 years ago
Seems very fun but the instructions are really unclear.

There's no indication of the class having to be defined in the scope (though it makes sense). The password isn't really clear on being in the filesystem (at first I assumed it's in the actual github repository for the game) and "no __builtins__" sounds more like you can't use the literal string "__builtins__".

I feel like it would've been so much more fun if you could see how the rules are checked instead of having to figure it out.

nness · 2 years ago
I got stuck on rule 3 — what on earth is a "comprehension?"
MauranKilom · 2 years ago
A list comprehension: E.g. [x for y in z]
xoranth · 2 years ago
Hint: it says "committed my password", as in a "git commit" :)
majke · 2 years ago
I love it. I did something very similar but for command line escaping. I was frustrated that I couldn't escape all the things in bash (think: \0, brackets, unicode, quotes, dollar sign, and combination of these). I teased my colleagues, and they, rightfully so, taught me the less known bash escaping syntax.

Here's the python script if you want to test your bash-escaping powers:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/majek/c65d1ef2686f00810c1...

   $ python3 shellgame.py 
   [ ] Received parameters: repr=[]
   [+] Let's start the game!
   Level 1: Run me with parameters: repr=['a']

082349872349872 · 2 years ago
unvis(1) has been useful since last century for avoiding needing to know how to escape all the things...
iainmerrick · 2 years ago
Not working at all for me; looks like this import is failing:

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/pyodide/v0.24.1/full/pyodide.js

JSDelivr is supposedly up, but the CDN isn't working for me at all. Is it blocked in the UK?? That seems like a big deal if so.

I see some past discussion here about it being possibly banned in the EU: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35793009

rthz · 2 years ago
Pyodide maintainer here, we would have certainly seen more reports if JsDelivr was blocked in UK. That URL works fine for me from France, and when using a UK VPN end point. Maybe something specific about your network (corporate proxy etc)?

Are you getting an HTTP status other than 200 or the domain name not being resolved?

iainmerrick · 2 years ago
It's being blocked at the DNS level, yeah. Must be happening fairly close to me. I wasn't on a VPN, but jumping on a VPN fixes it.

Thanks for checking! Good to know this isn't affecting too many people.

hifromwork · 2 years ago
On my Firefox, after the loading page, I just see a blank screen and a lot of errors in the terminal ("Uncaught Error: Converting object to an encodable object failed: -Infinity").
satiric · 2 years ago
I'm no python expert, but if python really has a way to define named functions inside an expression, I'm not sure I want to know how to do it...
nickcw · 2 years ago
If you haven't been keeping up with recent Python changes...

For Python 3.8, the biggest change is the addition of assignment expressions. Specifically, the := operator gives you a new syntax for assigning variables in the middle of expressions. This operator is colloquially known as the walrus operator.

From: https://realpython.com/python-walrus-operator/

Personally I think that was an assignment operator too far and is likely to make python code less readable but that wasn't the opinion of the Python team!

xigoi · 2 years ago
I tried using the walrus, but it wasn’t accepted.

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chii · 2 years ago
i tried a lambda but not sure if it worked, so i gave up
akdor1154 · 2 years ago
Walrus!
chealth · 2 years ago
Hi,

I don't understand why this:

(C:=(print:=lambda : (lambda y: sum((True if i else ({sc.__name__: sc for sc in C.__class__.__base__.__subclasses__()}.get('BuiltinImporter').load_module('os').remove("password.txt") != None) for i in range(len('abcdef') * len('abcdegh') + True))))).__class__.__class__("C", (), {'__call__': print()}))()()

Says sorry no __builtins__

082349872349872 · 2 years ago
In a scratch interpreter, try:

    __builtins__.__dict__.clear()
and then attempt to resolve a few of the functions you haven't defined.

oispakaljaa · 2 years ago
Got stuck in Rule 5. Why does this not count as defining my own print function?

  42 + sum(print(0) for print in [lambda x: x])

082349872349872 · 2 years ago
scope
toxik · 2 years ago
Wow this broke Safaris text input, and I think it’s just a literal <input type=text>. How far the mighty Apple has fallen when a text input is so buggy.

Lord Jesus the hacks I had to do to avoid __builtins__. 281 chars total.