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apologies - I didn't "reply all" to this.

For the record:

I made an argument (in reply) about interactive tinkering, and setting "condition",

and Guido replied essentially that "if condition: breakpoint()" is just as good for tinkering... a condition parameter to debuggers is not useful, and not as explicit.

Yes - agreed (and the \`gist\` which I tinkered w/ one day - I've now discarded ;-).

Thanks, Guido!

- Yarko

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:

Yarko, there's one thing I don't understand. Maybe you can enlighten me. Why would you prefer

breakpoint(x >= 1000)

over

if x >= 1000: breakpoint()

?

The latter seems unambiguous and requires thinking all around. Is there something in iPython that makes this impractical?

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/\~guido)