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What advantage does this have over a debugger? (To be fair, in my experience, lots of python users have no idea what a debugger is...)
by cozzyd 3y ago
What advantage does this have over a debugger?
(To be fair, in my experience, lots of python users have no idea what a debugger is...)
- notnmeyer 3y agosame thoughts. i kind of get the utility of logging the whole application state without breakpoints or stepping through stuff (but maybe debuggers can also do this?), but my first thought was that this is simpler for folks not used to debuggers
- dr_kiszonka 3y agoIt is not unusual for me to have a for-loop running for a few hours as it is processing thousands of small objects or just a few dozen of large ones. A debugger wouldn't necessarily help me in this case and this decorator would be a little easier to set up than a logger.
- notnmeyer 3y agoah, yeah, i can see it being useful here.
- martinky24 3y agoLots of people still print debug. That’s ok.
- icholy 3y agoipdb.set_trace is the best of both worlds
- xLaszlo 3y agoThanks for the comments. I don't have anything against debuggers, but I feel more natural to write into the code and this simplifies it. TBH I haven't tried this or snoop heavily and the project was more of a curiosity of how the internals of python work after I found a relevant SO post. Honestly I was surprised how easy it was. If you actually want to use something like this use snoop: https://pypi.org/project/snoop/ https://pypi.org/project/snoop/ it is more feature rich and maintained.