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?

4 comments

4 Comments

dianam193mo 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_stone593mo agoMost Upvoted

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

evan5433mo 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.

cameron_hernandez6925d ago

Ha, you nailed it with that magic eye poster thing! I once spent a whole evening "fixing" a spreadsheet at work only to realize the next morning I'd been looking at the wrong column the whole time. My brain just decided to fill in what it expected to see instead of what was actually there. Makes you feel like a real genius when you finally catch it, doesn't it?