Debugging Python ?

[Michael Sparks]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Shane Hathaway wrote:

> As a bonus, I find that print statements do not rightfully belong in
> most of the software I write.  Therefore I can happily add print
> statements anywhere for debugging purposes, knowing that removing them
> later is perfectly safe.

As an extra bonus, if you do this you can remove them all automatically:

def print(*args):
   for arg in args:
      print arg,
   return True


assert print("Well, well, well", "said", "he")

To erase all tracks of the debugging statements at runtime, just use the
-O flag. I tend to use a variant of this for debugging systems that have
"complex" concurrency to make it simpler to track "who" "said" what.

I know you can do the same with just grep if you use print - but you have
to ensure that your debugging statements don't span multiple lines.


Michael.