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Warning: I broke my own code 4 times last week and finally found the bug in 12 minutes
Last Tuesday I was stuck on a Python loop after work in my apartment in Austin, and the fix was a `break` statement I had put in the wrong spot. I had typed it 4 times before I saw it, and I only found it by printing the list right before the loop ran. How do you all track down silly errors after staring at the screen too long?
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mason_murray814h ago
Printing stuff just hides the real problem. A break in the wrong spot means your loop logic is shaky, so go rewrite that block until the flow is obvious. Staring harder won't fix sloppy structure.
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