On 06/03/2013 04:49 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 03/06/2013 04:10, Dan Sommers wrote:
On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 20:16:21 -0400, Jason Swails wrote:
... If you don't believe me, you've never hit a bug that 'magically'
disappears when you add a debugging print statement ;-).
Ah, yes. The Heisenbug. ;-)
We used to run into those back in the days of C and assembly language.
They're much harder to see in the wild with Python.
Strikes me it's a bit like problems when prototyping circuit boards. The
card doesn't work, so you mount it on an extender card, problem goes
away, remove extender card, problem reappears. Wash, rinse, repeat :)
That's when you use a little kappy-zapper spray.
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