Debuggers are great. But to unboggle your mind, here’s why I don’t use a Python debugger. I don’t write enough Python to justify the time to learn the debugger

Debuggers are great. But to unboggle your mind, here’s why I don’t use a Python debugger. I don’t write enough Python to justify the time to learn the debugger. I write just enough to help my staff/teammate fix their problem or debug some tool I’m using and move on. I’ve been doing this long enough to lose interest in digging deeply into each language. I learned gdb for C. After that I learned jdb and Eclipse for Java. There was probably something I used for the few years I wrote PERl later PHP. After a while I stopped getting excited about deeply learning new languages and their tools. Debuggers and IDEs are yet another dependency. Frequently I use systems I don’t control, like client systems. They have really stringent rules about what can be installed. The lowest common denominator is vim and print. Certainly there are lots of reasons to learn debuggers. But there are also lots of valid reasons to learn a tool like this which is easy to learn, useful in across many languages, and gets the job done in many situations.