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[Python-Dev] PEP 553: Built-in debug()

Fernando Perez fperez.net at gmail.com
Thu Sep 7 15:09:09 EDT 2017 
On 2017-09-07 00:20:17 +0000, Barry Warsaw said:

> Thanks Fernando, this is exactly the kind of feedback from other 
> debuggers that I’m looking for.  It certainly sounds like a handy 
> feature; I’ve found myself wanting something like that from pdb from 
> time to time.

Glad it's useful, thanks for the pep!

> The PEP has an open issue regarding breakpoint() taking *args and 
> **kws, which would just be passed through the call stack.  It sounds 
> like you’d be in favor of that enhancement.

If you go witht the `(*a, **k)` pass-through API, would you have a 
special keyword-only arg called 'header' or similar? That seems like a 
decent compromise to support the feature with the builtin while 
allowing other implementations to offer more features. In any case, +1 
to a pass-through API, as long as the built-in supports some kind of 
mechanism to help the user get their bearings with "you're here" type 
messages.

Cheers

f
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