> On Oct 27, 2021, at 1:01 PM, Unixnut <unix...@witheredfire.com> wrote: > > On 06/10/2021 18:30, Dieter Maurer wrote: >> Unixnut wrote at 2021-10-3 22:03 +0100: >>> If I run a python3 program with "import pdb" in the code, would it >>> execute slower than without loading the debugger? >> Importing `pdb` does not slow down the application significantly >> (it just adds the import time but does not otherwise affect the >> application). >> Only when you execute code under debugger control, the >> execution is significantly slowed down (because the debugger >> gets informed (via callbacks) about important "event"s (entering >> a line, function call, function return, exception) during >> the execution). > Excellent, many thanks for confirming. I can leave the execution running then.
But it’s pointless to import pdb, if you aren’t going to use it. I would suggest that a best practice would be to only import pdb, if and when you were going to be performing the debugging. (So maybe set a boolean constant, that would cause the import, and debugging code to be executed. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
