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A test suite is to its software
as a map is to its territory.
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("The map is not the territory.")

—Vassil, arms covered in virtual grease to the elbows,
having fun fixing a test suite (whose software seems to work).

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My other signature is really witty.

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@Hotweatherisbad @meuon this is where I finally break and write unit tests...

It was to avoid these "what the..." moments that I started always using linting and type hinting on my Python code, and (quite commonly) writing tests (not that I do TDD, shudder).

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