learning Python fubared my javascript

[kayakbabe]

I haven’t coded in python since my first attempt at a magic mirror. In the past couple of months I’ve built 2, a working one for my Dad and now another for me. First I decided that I needed to rewrite the MMM-Flick module because it was crashing my mirror. So, I dove into that. I abandoned the Flick because it really isn’t very reliable and am replacing that with buttons that turn the mirror display on and off and a small adafruit gesture sensor for changing screens. Python was a must. I made a mess but a working mess at that.

Last week, I decided I liked all of Erik Flowers weather icons and that the default weather just didn’t use enough of them. Thus I needed to change the default weather module so it uses the openweathermap weather.id instead of the weather.icon. I’ve been working intermittently for a week and being super frustrated. Today I got the brilliant idea (DUH!) to use a syntax checker on it. Python syntax check… BOOM! DUH! I was putting python in a javascript. DUH! It doesn’t work. DUH!

Just had to share that. 'Cause I laughed so hard my soda squirted through my nose. So now I have a mess of code to clean up and a wet puddle on my desk.

I’m getting a cleaning rag after I hug myself in sympathy pains and pat myself on the back for figuring it out. If I could only figure out how to get 7 evenings of my life back now…

[sdetweil]

@kayakbabe lol easy to fall into the ditch!..