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Spent 3 hours trying to fix a simple bug in my first Python script just because I forgot a colon.
I was following a tutorial for a basic calculator and everything broke after I typed 'if user_choice == 1' without the colon, which felt like the dumbest mistake ever.
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xenar148d ago
Oh man, that colon gets everyone. I spent a whole afternoon once because my function definition was missing one. The error messages never just say "hey, you forgot a colon here." You just stare at a wall of red text feeling completely lost. It's a rite of passage for sure.
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allen.oscar7d ago
Tell me about it, @xenar14! I've been there so many times. You just sit there feeling dumb while the computer yells at you with a huge error. It really is a weird club to join, getting stuck on a tiny punctuation mark. That feeling when you finally spot it is a mix of relief and pure annoyance.
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