miasanchez•2mo agoMost Upvoted

My first Python script crashed because I forgot a colon, but I finally fixed it after staring at the screen for an hour.

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Oh man, that's the worst feeling. I've lost whole afternoons to a single missing bracket or a typo in a variable name. The worst part is when you finally see it, it's so obvious you feel like an idiot. What were you trying to make with the script?

the_robin2mo ago

Last week I spent three hours because I wrote "lenght" instead of "length" in a function. @the_sean, I started reading the code out loud to my cat, and that's actually how I caught it. Saying each variable name slowly made the typo jump out. Now I keep a text-to-speech tab open to hear the code back. It sounds silly but it saves me from those tiny mistakes that ruin an afternoon.

robinp892mo ago

Ever try rubber duck debugging with a real duck?

wendy_henderson218d ago

The cat method works. I read my code out loud to my dog and found a missing parenthesis that way. Now I talk through every line before I run it.