Update: I thought my Python script was broken because of a logic error, but it was just a missing colon after an 'if' statement that took me 3 hours to find.

I was convinced my code's structure was wrong and kept rewriting functions, but my friend finally spotted the tiny syntax mistake I'd skimmed over a dozen times, so has anyone else lost a whole evening to a single punctuation mark?

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joseph_black5d agoMost Upvoted

My worst was a stray comma in a JSON config.

adam6525d ago

Yeah, my buddy had a real bad one with a semicolon in C. He was pulling his hair out for a full weekend because his loop kept exiting early. Turned out he had typed a semicolon right after the for statement, which basically made it do nothing. The worst part was he'd shown the code to a couple people and they missed it too. It's always the tiny things you stop seeing after staring too long.