On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 10:58 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 18:04:11 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: >> But if you know that >> there's only a handful of variables that you'd actually want to do that >> to, you can simply put those into an object of some form, and then >> mutate that object. > > o_O > > If I knew ahead of time which variables held the wrong value, I'd fix > them so they held the right value ahead of time, and not bother using a > debugger. > > :-)
Ahh but that requires that you know the right value as well. It's plausible that you have a handful of "tweakables" but you have no idea what to tweak them *to*. That's where this would be plausible. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list