Spent 45 minutes staring at a missing semicolon in my Python script last night

I was working on a little password generator project at my kitchen table around midnight and nothing would run, then I realized I forgot a colon after my for loop and honestly felt like such a goof, has anyone else wasted forever on a tiny syntax thing like that?

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milalewis2d ago

Forty five minutes over a semicolon? That's brutal.

ruby_bell471d ago

Sometimes that one little mark is the whole difference between right and wrong.

parker_hall51d ago

oh man i feel that pain. i once spent a good hour trying to figure out if a comma should go before "and" in a list of three things. turned out it didn't matter and i just needed to go to bed. my roommate walked in and i was just staring at the screen like a crazy person. its honestly a miracle i ever finish anything i write.