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I’ve found that the more state and code paths to the bug, or the more confused I am about the bug the more likely I am to need a bunch of print statements. Debu

I’ve found that the more state and code paths to the bug, or the more confused I am about the bug the more likely I am to need a bunch of print statements. Debugging for me is a fine scalpel that works great when I think I precisely understand what is going on but my code appears to be doing something impossible. Starting stepping at the top of a program and just looking for what goes wrong is a usually a huge time sink.

saagarjha 6y ago
Debuggers are in almost all cases a superset of print statements. However, you have to learn how to use them effectively since there’s so much you can do. I assure you that single stepping to the problem is not how to use a debugger to find problems ;)