a debugging task

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i am currently debugging a program. i need to minimize it, but it is right now kinda large (541 lines). it is divided up into a number of functions. one of the functions (supposedly) being called never gets control. i put in a bad statement (into that function) that should fail (it store into a list with an index of 'foo'), but it doesn't. the caller is printing variables after the point where it should be calling that function. but that is surely where i need to focus my attention. but the call is a statement by itself between statements the print out some variables. it will be a while (to minimize it because it is so big) but if this is resolved when i get the code minimized, i'll post it.