Stack-overflow-import - Import arbitrary code from Stack Overflow as Python modules.

Filip Haglund

Last update: Jan 8, 2023

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Overview

StackOverflow Importer

Do you ever feel like all you’re doing is copy/pasting from Stack Overflow?

Let’s take it one step further.

from stackoverflow import quick_sort will go through the search results

of [python] quick sort looking for the largest code block that doesn’t

syntax error in the highest voted answer from the highest voted question

and return it as a module. If that answer doesn’t have any valid python

code, it checks the next highest voted answer for code blocks.

>> print("I wonder who made split_into_chunks", split_into_chunks.__author__) I wonder who made split_into_chunks https://stackoverflow.com/a/35107113 >>> print("but what's the license? Can I really use this?", quick_sort.__license__) but what's the license? Can I really use this? CC BY-SA 3.0 >>> assert("nice, attribution!")">

>>> from stackoverflow import quick_sort, split_into_chunks

>>> print(quick_sort.sort([1, 3, 2, 5, 4]))
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

>>> print(list(split_into_chunks.chunk("very good chunk func")))
['very ', 'good ', 'chunk', ' func']

>>> print("I wonder who made split_into_chunks", split_into_chunks.__author__)
I wonder who made split_into_chunks https://stackoverflow.com/a/35107113

>>> print("but what's the license? Can I really use this?", quick_sort.__license__)
but what's the license? Can I really use this? CC BY-SA 3.0
>>> assert("nice, attribution!")

This module is licensed under whatever license you want it to be as long as the license is compatible with the fact that I blatantly copied multiple lines of code from the Python standard library.

Comments

Should be able to import itself from SO
Hi! I'd consider this a feature request, stack-overflow-import should be able to import itself via stack overflow. e.g.

from stackoverflow import stackoverflow

This way stack-overflow-import users wouldn't need to go through downloading stack-overflow-import again.
opened by filippog 3
Add proper licensing

"The PSF license was developed specifically and only for Python and its standard libraries. If you want to license your code for contribution to the PSF, do not use the PSF license; "

https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSoftwareFoundationLicenseFaq

I would suggest MIT, BSD, or maybe in this case WTFPL. Basically just add a permissive license file and mention of it in readme you're good to go.

opened by cdgriffith 2
Add a security warning

It may not be immediately obvious to less experienced programmers that this joke tool is also a shotgun aimed directly at their own face, and should be treated with caution.

It might actually be better to have an interactive prompt that prints out the answer and requires console confirmation of the code in question before actually running code.

opened by glyph 1
Caching for already resolved "questions"

Making the requests to Stack Overflow on every run of the program is not efficient.

Once a question/code piece was found and downloaded it should be cached.
wontfix

opened by hvm2hvm 1

No longer works

In 2021 this package always fails to import things with the following error:

  File "/home/vadim0x60/.pyenv/versions/3.9.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/stackoverflow/__init__.py", line 34, in find_spec
    code, author, url = cls.find_working_code(spec.name)
  File "/home/vadim0x60/.pyenv/versions/3.9.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/stackoverflow/__init__.py", line 24, in find_working_code
    result = cls.fetch_code(url)
  File "/home/vadim0x60/.pyenv/versions/3.9.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/stackoverflow/__init__.py", line 85, in fetch_code
    return cls.find_code_in_html(q.text)
  File "/home/vadim0x60/.pyenv/versions/3.9.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/stackoverflow/__init__.py", line 94, in find_code_in_html
    answer.votes = int(answer.find(itemprop="upvoteCount")["data-value"])
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable

Tragic to see an essential part of my workflow completely fail me.

opened by vadim0x60 0

support more than one answer code detection

Test to find the two example unable to execute, which may because of the change of highest votes answer changed. Change the code to support more than one answer code detection

opened by liminghao1630 1
Make the imported module callable
While this marvelous library is obviously saving everyone a lot of time going back and forth between SO, clipboard, and their IDE, I feel its usage is still not as straightforward as it could be.

For example, in this snippet:

from stackoverflow import split_into_chunks print(list(split_into_chunks.chunk("very good chunk func")))

you still need to know to call a chunk function from the imported module. It could've been chunks, split, or whatever else (depending on what the SO answer chose), forcing the programmer to (gasp!) look at the code he or she imports and perhaps even understand it.

I'd suggest that the importer should be clever enough to pick the correct function for the programmer, and then make the imported symbol itself callable:

from stackoverflow import split_into_chunks print(list(split_into_chunks("very good chunk func")))

The heuristics of making the correct choice are left as exercise for the reader.
opened by Xion 2
Is this a programming joke or not?

A colleague and I can't decide if this is a programming joke or if it is meant seriously. Could you please shed some light there? :)

PS: This isn't a meta-joke, it is a serious question.

opened by 7heo 9

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