Spent 2 weeks building a login page that kept breaking... turned out it was one missing semicolon

I'm about 3 months into learning Python and web frameworks, so I decided to build a simple login page for a practice project last week. I followed a tutorial step by step, but the form kept throwing a 500 error every time I hit submit. After 2 days of staring at the code and checking forums, I finally noticed I forgot a semicolon at the end of a line in my database connection string. Has anyone else spent way too long hunting down a tiny typo like that?

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nina_butler4d ago

Two whole weeks for ONE missing semicolon? That seems a bit dramatic tbh.

cole_walker264d ago

You don't need a semicolon in Python though, that's more of a JavaScript thing.