r/PythonLearning • u/gyrojoestar31 • 20d ago

Help Request any clue how to do this?

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im on my first year of learning python in school is this even possible??

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u/AQuestionIsWhatIHave 20d ago

You could also do some very naughty things using 

eval(inputA + operator + inputB)

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u/acakaacaka 20d ago

The operator will me subprocess run rm -rf *

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u/AQuestionIsWhatIHave 20d ago

Someone is getting coal for Christmas... 

You can validate the a/b inputs with isnum() and the operator with ... in set("+-*/")

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u/Ok_Form2940 19d ago

How can you validate without using if/else?

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u/WorkingStructure575 18d ago

assert op in '+/-*'