Spent 3 hours debugging a script last night only to realize I forgot a semicolon.

I was working on a basic Python program to organize my music files, and after triple-checking every line, turns out I missed one little semicolon on line 42 has anyone else had a bug that made you feel both stupid and relieved at the same time?

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jesse9944d ago

Three hours is rough. I spent a whole afternoon once tracking down a bug in a batch rename script, turns out I had a closing parenthesis where a bracket should go. The worst part is that feeling when you finally spot it and realize it was right there the whole time, staring at you from the screen. Relieved it's fixed but also a little mad at yourself for missing something so basic. Python's pretty forgiving about semicolons actually, you could be coding in JavaScript and then you'd really be in for a bad time with those.

christopher_wells43d ago

Notices it everywhere now, like missing a key in your pocket and blaming the lock.