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by codesuela 5211 days ago
while I know this is a joke I would argue that this is in no way hackerish, this is an asshole version. Basically a middle finger to anyone who wants to work with your code. Also anything but pythonic. (please note this not meant to be an insult to the parent commenter)
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It is hackerish to the extent it demonstrates a knowledge of python's internals, however maybe it would better be described as being written by a former assembly programmer. Also, you might be interested in the fact that Paul Graham argues that his dream language would have inline bytecode. It probably wouldn't be written as a list of integers though.

As for this not being pythonic, at least its not self modifying or anything fun. I did once see a talk on obsfucated python that used decorators to implement a Turing complete language, so this is hardly the worst abuse of python ever.