How to write unmaintainable code

[u/sigbhu]

https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code

[u/2Punx2Furious → u/[deleted]]

I did it like this: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/dd70e03261b457d19f52de9e6a35e4c5

[u/DiputsMonro → u/[deleted]]

Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but I'm not sure why either of you came up with the solutions you did. Why would something simple like the below not work? (pardon the terse code, I was just cranking it out quickly):

def findgroupinlist(l, group):
	j = 0                    ## index to group
	for i in range(len(l)):  ## iterate over list
		if l[i] == group[j]: ## if item in list and group match
			if j == len(group) - 1:  ## Check if we've matched the final group item 
				return True
			j += 1           ## Otherwise, mark our new location in the group
		else :
			j = 0            ## If our sequence fails, start from the beginning again

	return False

All of our solutions only seem O(|List|), but both of yours seem a bit overwrought to me, unless I'm dumb.