On Sep 6, 2017, at 10:19, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > > 99% of the time I use a debugger I use pdb.set_trace(). The pm() stuff is > typically useful for debugging small, simple programs only -- complex > programs likely hide the exception somewhere (after logging it) so there's > nothing for pdb.pm() to look at. I think Barry is wisely focusing on just the > ability to quickly and programmatically insert a breakpoint.
Thanks Guido, that’s my thinking exactly. pdb isn’t going away of course, so those less common use cases are still always available. Cheers, -Barry
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