Is there something similar to `set -v` of bash in python

[Peng Yu]

On Sunday, September 18, 2016, Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com> wrote:

> On Saturday, September 17, 2016 at 11:09:04 PM UTC-4, Peng Yu wrote:
> > The manual says the following.
> >
> > "The trace function is invoked (with event set to 'call') whenever a
> > new local scope is entered; it should return a reference to a local
> > trace function to be used that scope, or None if the scope shouldn’t
> > be traced."
> >
> > It means that one can not somehow settrace in one line and expect to
> > get the trace function being called in the next line.
> >
> > So something like `set -v` in bash sounds not possible. Is it so?
>
> You've found a good reason why "set -v" would be very difficult if
> not impossible in Python.
>
> I'm curious though, why you would want to trace every line in a
> program every time you (or anyone else) ran it?


This is for debugging not for normal run. But I need the ability to control
the range of the code in which the debug message is printed.


> I view tracing lines
> as a debugging technique. Once the program is behaving properly, why
> do you want all the noise of the traced lines?
>
> In Bash scripts we do it because some scripts are light automation
> where the person running the script should have a clear idea of what
> actions it is taking.  The actions in the script are commands that the
> person might run themselves at other times, and so the difference
> between running the script and running the commands is not great.
>
> But in a Python program, presumably the difference is greater. I cannot
> type out single Python lines at my shell prompt to perform the actions
> the Python program does.
>
> Perhaps you want to define an alias for "python -m trace -t $*" ?
>
> --Ned.
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Regards,
Peng