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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of print debugging by Too on Sunday April 25, 2021 @01:35AM (#26930546)
Not sure what situation you are talking about. Debugging Python is as easy as right-clicking a file in Pycharm and pressing debug. Why care if it was an afterthought when it for the past decade has worked perfectly.
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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of print debugging by corty on Sunday April 25, 2021 @08:23AM (#26932181)
I care. That it has worked for the last decade only means that Python was without a working debugger for 2/3 of its existence. 1/3 of which I had to suffer from it.

Also, pycharm isn't really what I would call a proper debugger yet, attaching remote running processes for example just doesn't work reliably yet and is very new anyways. Debugging embedded targets just doesn't work. Multithreading is iffy (but that's unfortunately normal in Python).

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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of print debugging by throwaway894345 on Sunday April 25, 2021 @11:37AM (#26933539)
Also needing to use a particular text editor to use a decent debugger is bananas.
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