I finally got my first Python script to run after 4 hours of debugging

The issue was a single missing colon after an 'if' statement. I stared at my screen for so long I almost gave up. Anyone else have a tiny syntax error that wasted your whole evening?

3 comments

3 Comments

dianam197d ago

Feel your pain. Spent an hour once because I used a single equals sign instead of a double. My brain just refused to see it.

jason_stone597d ago

Been there. My eyes just glaze over and the code turns into a magic eye poster.

evan5436d ago

That magic eye poster feeling is so real. I see it all the time with my kids doing their homework. They'll stare at a math problem for ten minutes and miss a simple minus sign. It's like our brains have a filter that blanks out tiny, obvious details when we're too close to the problem. Stepping away for five minutes is the only fix.