I once needed a global variable in a Python module which was tracking whether the process was still warming up its caches.

The function which recognizes that warmup is completed can't assign to the variable unless it explicitly declares it as a global. So somewhere in my code there is a line which simply says:

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Post from Alex Naka

Looking at some old code and was initially puzzled by a variable named 'feet'.

I have now worked out that this was at one point called 'legend_handles', which then became 'leg_hands', which then became 'feet'

sometimes I truly hate my past self