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Dev tools · April 2, 2012

My sunday night project (@cmpyl)

@cmpyl Tweet a line of python at it (right now it works best with math) and it'll tweet back at you the return value. Ex: https://twitter.com/#!/cmpyl/status/186850674053615616 Pretty useless little bot but it will be cool to see what sort of wild one liners it finds.

My sunday night project (@cmpyl) launched on April 2, 2012 with 11 votes, #117 of 446 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

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@cmpyl is a Twitter bot that executes Python code sent to it and replies with the return value. Users tweet single-line Python commands, and the bot processes them and responds with results. It works best with mathematical operations. Created as an experimental project, it demonstrates how Python one-liners can be executed and shared through social media, primarily intended for developers interested in playful code exploration.

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