A bit fun with Python

[Don Arnold]

"Ulrich Petri" <ulope at gmx.de> wrote in message news:<b5nvo6$2aio1s$1 at ID-67890.news.dfncis.de>...
> a little riddle:
> 
> how does this script:
> ------------------
> re.fork("this works")
> print sys.compile
> ------------------
> produce that output:
> 
> ------------------
> this works
> posix
> ------------------
> 
> ;)
> 
> Ciao Ulrich

This is close:

import sys
import re

re.fork = sys.stdout.write
sys.compile = sys.platform

re.fork('this works\n')   # '\n' added 
print sys.compile

[begin output]

this works
win32

[end output]

Of course, just because you _can_ do crap like this, you'd have to be
nuts (or a '1337 h4xor' wannabe) to want to.

Don