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!
Re:I fixed a bug in Python
by JulianWasTaken on Sunday November 04, 2012 @01:41PM
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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!
I can see how it reads very differently on Hacker News...