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Can someone describe why this sort of thing would be useful? I'm not criticizing, I just can't think of a use case for this.
by Davertron 15y ago
Can someone describe why this sort of thing would be useful? I'm not criticizing, I just can't think of a use case for this.
- burgerbrain 15y agoDebugging for one. Same reason you might want to attach to an already running C/C++ process with GDB. (This is perhaps less less powerful for that use (since it would currently lack any sort of manual flow control), but I think the benefits of it actually being a REPL might offset that for some uses.)
- polemic 15y agoYeah, that's what I was thinking. The one thing I miss after moving from PHP is xdebug :/ Profiling too?
- ehsanu1 15y agoI just did PyWeek (week-long python game competition), and this would have been great for seeing the effects of my code changes right away. I still had a workable solution: I wrote a script that watched for any .py files that have been saved, and if so, ran the game for 15 seconds.
- MostAwesomeDude 15y agoMeliae at any point in the process would be awesome for long-running servers.
- wladimir 15y agoWell, if you have a Python-based closed-source application, and you want to debug that, extend or change its functionality, or find out what happens inside it can be useful...