🔒 Random purple 'def'

[slender sail]

Why is this def function purple out of all the normal blue def. It's bugging me out so much. Is there any fix?

[obtuse plume]

@slender sail

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[turbid light]

linting doesn't work well when there's a bug in your code
more specifically, if (index < len(frontier) is missing a closing bracket

[slender sail]

OH YEAH I NOTICED

Yeah, thanks, I noticed

I thought it's some IDE issue, it was my code

Thanks!

[turbid light]

also the outer () is optional in python, so if index < len(frontier) also suffices

[slender sail]

Yeah, I'm just so used to writing that in C

So it kinda moved over to Python

[untold valley]

You're not alone - a lot of people do similar things.

Another common trap is trying to do C-style loops in Python so look out for that.

[slender sail]

What is C-style loop?

[untold valley]

for (int i = 0; i < 5; ++i) {

[slender sail]

Oh definitely not

The IDE will scream like crazy when it sees that

😂

[turbid light]

looping with indices instead of looping directly with values
e.g.

for i in range(len(stuff)):  # C style
    value = stuff[i]
    ...

for value in stuff:  # Pythonic
    ...

for i, value in enumerate(stuff):  # if you also need the index
    ...

[slender sail]

Thanks for the warning

[untold valley]

Yeah don't mention it.

Purplys explanation is better.

[slender sail]

Roger that

Thanks both

How do I close the thread

[turbid light]

!close, or just leave it as it'll automatically close after 1 hr of activity
and if anyone has more stuff to add they can

[slender sail]

Thanks, I think you guys helped me more than enough already

!close

[obtuse plume]

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