Tried using a for loop to count files... ended up crashing my whole script

I was working on a little project to rename about 300 photos in a folder. Wrote a for loop in Python that was supposed to go through them one by one, but I forgot to add a break condition when something went wrong. It got stuck in an infinite loop, filled up my entire C drive with temp files, and I had to restart my computer. Has anyone else had a simple loop blow up on them like that?

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theagibson16d ago

Yeah, forgetting a break point will wreck your whole morning real quick.

faith_thomas16d ago

Oh man, I've been there. Made a while loop that outran my patience and my hard drive at the same time. Now I just add a counter and a print statement every ten iterations so I can watch my mistakes in real time.

emery_white15d ago

Oh come on, I actually feel like infinite loops get a bad rap. @faith_thomas, you ever just let one run and watch your computer slowly lose its mind just to see how far it goes? It's like a little science experiment. A little chaos builds character.