[Python-Dev] bdb.py trace C implementation? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Apr 2 01:14:25 CEST 2009


On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:

2009/4/1 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:

Tracing has other uses besides debugging though. The OP said he wished to implement a C trace function for bdb. Wouldn't that make it only applicable to debugging?

I honestly don't recall, but I believe pretty much everyone who uses tracing does so via bdb.py. And yes, when debugging sometimes you have to silently skip 1000 iterations until a condition becomes true, and the tracking speed matters.

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