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Debugging Python

Mike C. Fletcher mcfletch at rogers.com
Fri Jan 9 09:06:33 EST 2004 
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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