Debugging Python

[Ashley Lloyd]

Thanks very much for your help.
Have a good weekend!
Cheers
Ashley


>From: "Mike C. Fletcher" <mcfletch at rogers.com>
>To: Ashley Lloyd <ashleylloyd at hotmail.com>,  Python List 
><python-list at python.org>
>Subject: Re: Debugging Python
>Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 09:06:33 -0500
>
>Standard module pdb is popular (and what I use, though I also do lots of 
>print-statement debugging too).  There's also a win32db (or something like 
>that) in PythonWin.  Some of the IDE's have integrated debuggers which are 
>normally very similar to pdb.  I think HapDebugger is about the only truly 
>"different" debugging system, in that it's an out-of-process (and IIRC, 
>remote) debugging mechanism that relies on a patched version of Python.
>
>BTW, the Agile Programmer types have been known to suggest that debuggers 
>are entirely unnecessary, as everything should be caught by more and more 
>fine-grained unit-tests.  Seems like a nice way to go, IMO.
>
>HTH,
>Mike
>
>Ashley Lloyd wrote:
>
>>What do people generally use to debug their Python programs? I haven't 
>>seen anything out there that walks through the code, but perhaps I'm 
>>looking in the wrong places?
>
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