PSA: That free IDE extension I ignored for 6 months actually caught 3 bugs in my first hour using it

I thought those linter tools were just for show until I tried Pylint on a friday night and it flagged a variable name typo that would've crashed my whole loop. Ended up finding two more logic errors I never noticed before. Has anyone else had a tool they dismissed that later saved them serious debugging time?

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margaret_williams519d ago

Three bugs in an hour just sounds like you're a sloppy coder tbh.

grant_allen854d agoMost Upvoted

Run Pylint and just fix stuff one at a time.

christopher_wells419d ago

3 bugs in an hour sounds wild but honestly it depends how deep you go into the codebase. My first run with Pylint I had it set to basic mode and it still caught a string that was defined but never used anywhere - turns out that was my fallback value for an API call and without it the whole function just returned nothing silently. Did you notice if the bugs were all in one section of code or scattered across different files? I always wonder if tools like that just surface your worst habits in specific areas