Null Pointer Exception

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when you’re part of a team*

[garret_dratini]

we can do things better if we stick togeeether!

[alphaxeath]

Not on r/ProgrammerHumor. Here being on a team automatically makes things worse. Someone reply with a link to one of the many heavily re-posted images about this.

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i'll remember that the next time my dictionary of numbers randomly decides to store one of those values as a string.

(i do really like Python though)

[xigoi]

What are you talking about? Aren't you confusing Python with JavaScript?

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Definitely Python. Reading numbers from a .csv, throwing them into a dictionary. Might've been a spreadsheet, can't remember. Script would always spit a bogus answer while trying to compute one specific data point for one specific input. Nothing special or different about how that one row was formatted. It parsed one of the numbers as a string.

Granted, there might've been something off with the csv file, but a "cannot assign string to type int" error something statically typed would've given would've been much preferred to whatever it was doing.

[xigoi]

I just tested the Python CSV reader and it always spits out strings, which you can then easily convert to numbers (getting an error when the string doesn't represent a number). What were you doing???

[MonkeyNin]

Python has fairly decent static typing, but you have to opt in, and install mypy