Re: [Tutor] Stupid bug

2010-11-11 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Wayne Werner wrote: Including the sister bug - continually importing something and you still get the old function because you forgot to delete the .pyc file. Whoops! Er, whoops is right... I think you may have misinterpreted what you were seeing. When you import a module for the first time,

Re: [Tutor] Stupid bug

2010-11-10 Thread Wayne Werner
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Terry Carroll wrote: > This isn't a question, I'm just offering it as a cautionary tale and an > opportunity to laugh at my own stupidity. > > Turns out my function was working correctly all along; but with my typo, I > was printing out the value from the first c

[Tutor] Stupid bug

2010-11-10 Thread Terry Carroll
This isn't a question, I'm just offering it as a cautionary tale and an opportunity to laugh at my own stupidity. I have a small function to calculate the MD5 checksum for a file. It's nothing fancy: ### import hashlib def md5(filename, bufsize=65536): ""