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   Message 134,355 of 135,536   
   Niklas Karlsson to Charlie Gibbs   
   Re: naughty Python   
   04 Jan 26 20:05:14   
   
   XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: nikke.karlsson@gmail.com   
      
   On 2026-01-04, Charlie Gibbs  wrote:   
   > On 2026-01-04, Niklas Karlsson  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2026-01-04, Peter Flass  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I look at some code and wonder "how the heck has this ever worked?", but   
   >>> the answer is that no one ever hit that combination of things before, or   
   >>> used that option.   
   >>   
   >> That's certainly the sensible explanation, but I've had scenarios like   
   >> that, even with my own code from the past, where I could swear up and   
   >> down that I myself had successfully used that code in the exact scenario   
   >> that would obviously break.   
   >   
   > Yup.  Sounds like a Schrodinbug.  It should have never worked,   
   > but it does until you look at it - and then it never works again.   
      
   Precisely.   
      
   Niklas   
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