Hit 100 lines of code that actually worked on the first try

I was working on a small Python script to sort my movie list. Kept getting errors. Took a break, came back, and just typed. Finished it. Ran it. No red text. Counted the lines. Exactly 100. It wasn't fancy, just a simple script. But it was mine and it ran. Felt like a real win after weeks of small mistakes. Has anyone else had a moment where a chunk of code just clicked and ran clean?

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dakotaellis2mo ago

Dude, that's the BEST feeling in the world!

paulc9318d ago

My 100 line script had a bug where the sorting broke if a movie title started with a number, so it took me like 45 minutes to figure that out. @dakotaellis is right though, that clean run feeling is something else. My personal best was a 47 line web scraper that grabbed guitar tab links on the first go, and I practically did a victory lap around my desk. Still waiting for my next one, but I'm pretty sure it's gonna be when I least expect it, like at 2am after a bad day.

hernandez.jordan2mo ago

That feeling when you finally get a clean run is the best. It's like your brain finally sorted itself out during that break. Makes all the earlier frustration worth it.