What is the difference? Set trace will basically hold the code at that line (breakpoint) and drop you into the interactive debugger session. It seems like synta

What is the difference? Set trace will basically hold the code at that line (breakpoint) and drop you into the interactive debugger session. It seems like syntactic sugar. edit: but what seems like interesting concept is to overwrite sys.breakpoint_hook to start a custom debug server allowing for remote debugger attachment.