R.I.P.
Loop that skipped the last item
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“Almost made it to the end. Almost.”
Death certificate
- Status
- 🪦 Buried
- Cause of death
- Off-by-oneLooped once too often, or once too few. A `<=` where a `<` belonged.
- Severity
- Low
- Hours to kill
- 3 hours
- Killed by
- Jashanpreet
- Language
- Python
- Born
- 12 Feb 2024
- Fix merged
- 15 Feb 2024
- Buried
- 26 Feb 2024
- Component
- reports
- Symptoms
- The last row of every exported report was missing: the loop stopped one item early.
- The fix
- Looped over the whole list instead of stopping at length minus one.
Timeline
Every life of this bug, oldest first.
Born as “Loop that skipped the last item”12 Feb 2024
Fix merged15 Feb 2024
Buried26 Feb 2024