I apologize for the "link bait." I didn't intend it as such, I was actually making fun of my "accomplishment," having contributed a tiny patch that fixed an obscure problem.

I can see how it reads very differently on Hacker News...

Screw it— you have nothing to apologize for. It is because of people like you— fixing bugs big an small— that Python is a viable for big projects.

And to the dude who put it on his resume— good move. This helps a ton when someone is screening resumes.

You have nothing to apologize for!

FWIW Ned, I had to update my (generally lame) résumé recently and was a bit embarrassed to put CPython on my list of projects that I've contributed to due to the same type of thing: it was a small patch that fixed an obscure issue.

Anyways, I did it anyhow (with the caveat to make me feel better :P) but I felt the same way about the "accomplishment" :). So congrats!

(This is tos9 by the way).

Sorry for the negative comment (I'm about to delete). I missed the tongue-in-cheek nature of your posting and as others pointed out. It was a real bug.

meh, forget the haters. congrats on your bugfix, I'd be pretty excited about contributing to CPython, too!

Don't be silly. I have 2 super-trivial patches in the Linux kernel tree (one to fix an array-indexing bug, and another to blacklist a feature on a piece of broken hardware). They're simple patches, but I'm nonetheless really happy to have contributed to such a giant project. You shouldn't apologize for feeling the same and wanting to post to HN about it!

Worry not, your title is fine.

Which is what you would expect, unless the OP was Guido, wouldn't you?

If my patch, how much so ever minuscule, was merged into CPython, I would be similarly elated as well.