pycob

The Python C Obfuscation Bomb. It's a little prank I sent to the Python-ideas mailing list on April Fools 2015. It's an overly obfuscated "new module loader" that prints this to the screen::

fatal error: ? executing 'rm -rf /'

It then hangs forever to make it seem like it really is deleting something. :O Of course, it does nothing.

The link to the discussion is here <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2015-April/032854.html>_.

This is the source program:

.. code-block:: c

#include <Python.h>

#ifdef _MSVC #error MSVC is evil #endif

// macros and typedefs for portability reasons

typedef int IN; typedef char CH;

#define T(x) x* #define CB(a,b) a##b #define CT(a,b) CB(a,b) #define P(x) CT(Py,x) #define O PyObject #define A args #define L self #define SQ "'" #define M "r" #define R "m" #define S " " #define D "-" #define V "f" #define H "/" #define U puts #define C ; #define ST static #define W m_i #define WL while #define UN 1 #define CM , #define LP ( #define RP ) #define LB { #define RB } #define LR [ #define RR ] #define N Py_RETURN_NONE #define Z "fatal" #define E "error" #define CO ":" #define NE "\n" #define Q "?" #define X "executing" #define IN PyMODINIT_FUNC #define I PyInit_m #define NL NULL #define EQ == #define IF if #define RT return #define VD void #define AD & #define CR PyModule_Create(AD m) #define DF PyMethodDef #define MDF PyModuleDef #define SB -1 #define MS "m" #define MI "i" #define HI PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT #define SE = #define ZO 0 #define CM , #define VA METH_VARARGS #define SR struct

ST T(O) W LP T(O) L CM T(O) A RP LB U LP Z S E CO S Q NE X S SQ M R S D M V S H SQ RP C WL LP UN RP C N C RB

ST DF mth LR RR SE LB LB MI CM W CM VA CM NL RB CM LB NL CM NL CM ZO CM NL RB RB C

ST SR MDF m SE LB HI CM MS CM NL CM SB CM mth RB C

IN I LP VD RP LB RT CR C RB