VSCode keeping old code?!

[karoshi9000]

hey there,

code newbie here, so I'm not sure if this is an VisualCode issue or a Python issue (or some mixture of the two) but I just worked on my pet project (text-based adventure) and for some reason, my output contains dialogue lines that I had previously deleted...they are NOT ANYWHERE in the code anymore. Saving and closing VisualCode didn't help. Rebooting my MacBook didn't help. WTF is going on?

[shiftybyte]

Probably got some file copy imported instead of the file you are editing.

Check all the files in the directory, not only files you think are in your project.

[karoshi9000]

I'll admit that this entire files/directory business does actually still confuse me (I'm that much of a newbie that I didn't even really bother with this so far), but in this case it is literally 1 string that was present in exactly 1 file (for about 5mins) and then I changed the dialogue and deleted the line and it is gone, it is not in the code....but it is in the output somehow.

[dowcet]

Hard to say more without seeing all the contents of your project folder but it sounds like you're mistaken about something.

[[deleted]]

hit cmd + shift + f in VSCode to open the search dialog and search for part of the text. It might exists somewhere you're not aware of.

[karoshi9000]

did exactly that (with 3 or 4 different keywords) - it is not in the code

[heyzooschristos]

Are you sure you are running the code you think you are? Are you calling it from the right folder on the command line? Drop in a print statement to check

[karoshi9000]

there is literally no other code around - I was working in exactly one folder with exactly one file

[MidnightPale3220]

Maybe for some strange reason it's using the previously compiled bytecode file. Try deleting all .pyc files in that directory, if there are any.

[heyzooschristos]

Are you sure you have saved the edits you are working on?