i put the whole thing inside another loop
for foo in range(1): and it is working fine. i changed tHE loop to if True: and it still works. lots of other stuff has also been changed as part of development and now it works just fine w/o the for or if surrounding it. i have no idea what could have caused this. it could be a cPython bug. and i can't rule out a system or CPU or RAM problem. very possibly some consistent systemic memory corruption event caused by something.
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What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two languages? Bilingual. One language? American.
What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two languages? Bilingual. One language? American.