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My loop ran all night and printed 4,000 lines because I forgot one equals sign
Last weekend I was messing around with a little Python practice project, just a guess the number game to get better at loops. I typed `while guess = secret:` instead of `while guess != secret:`, hit run, and walked off to make a sandwich. Came back 20 minutes later to a black terminal scrolling forever and my laptop fan sounding like a tiny jet. I had to force quit it and my guess counter hit 4,127 before I killed the thing. Is there a way to stop a runaway loop besides Ctrl+C, or do you just suffer and learn like I did?
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ben_fisher5d ago
Adding a timeout check inside the loop saves you next time, just compare elapsed time against a limit.
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