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@simpleJack that’s incredibly common syntax in a for loop.
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@ryanmhoffman Agreed. My variable scheme for this isn't the best but "for noun in nouns" is easy to understand.
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@ryanmhoffman
Common != correct
I only mention because ive done exactly what OP did and its an annoying bug to find but incredibly easy to avoid -
@franga2000 This was in Python actually.
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@TheCapeGreek how that could be? The items from the loop should be local scope, when items in 'in items' were already assigned global scope
I wrote this code about 3 years ago.
I guess we all had to start somewhere ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Typos kill, kids! And deploying to production.
Instead of "for item in items" in my script, I accidentally did "for items in items". Thus, an exponential loop has been entering things into the database for the past few hours before I found the place to fix it.
By the way, this runs on cron every minute. So there are processes still running exponentially right now, possibly 180+.
Yeah, I'm setting up a a test server instead now.
rant
typo
test in prod
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