My first program ran without an error after 47 tries

I was just trying to make a simple tip calculator in Python and kept getting 'invalid syntax' messages. The 47th time, I realized I'd forgotten a colon after an if statement. Has anyone else had a bug that was just one tiny character?

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robinl9023d ago

Missing a single quote or bracket can ruin your whole day... spent an hour once because I had a comma instead of a period in a config file.

susan_henderson1d ago

Ever had one of those days where you find the problem right after you give up and walk away? Tbh, I once lost a whole afternoon to a typo in a file path. It was just one wrong letter, like "img" instead of "imgs". The whole thing just silently failed. You stare at it so long the words stop making sense.

mitchell.wade23d ago

Honestly, 47 tries for a missing colon sounds like a tool issue. A decent editor would flag that immediately.