"James Britt" <james.britt / gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:475B7171.4010601 / gmail.com...
> Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote:
>
>>
>>     ...obviously, this is a seriously contrived example but it should
>> clarify my point.  I so amazingly meant to assign to the pre-existing
>> variable "list" but I accidentally created a new variable.  It's not even
>> typos with me.  I often thought I named a variable something descriptive
>> when I actually named it something else equally descriptive.  This can be 
>> a
>> surprisingly annoying bug to track...
>
>
> How are you testing your code?

    The usual way: by running it?