How to guard against bugs like this one?

[kj]

In <hkbv23$c07$1 at reader2.panix.com> kj <no.email at please.post> writes:


>Steve, I apologize for the snarkiness of my previous reply to you.
>After all, I started the thread by asking the forum for advice on
>how to avoid a certain kind of bugs, you were among those who gave
>me advice.  So nothing other than thanking you for it was in order.
>I just let myself get carried away by my annoyance with the Python
>import scheme.  I'm sorry about it.  Even though I don't think I
>can put to practice all of your advice, I can still learn a good
>deal from it.


Boy, that was dumb of me.  The above apology was meant for Stephen
Hansen, not Steve Holden.  I guess this is now a meta-apology...
(Sheesh.)

~kj