[Python-Dev] PEP 553 (original) (raw)

Yarko Tymciurak yarkot1 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 6 14:53:28 EDT 2017

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!

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at 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? -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20171006/8527c5db/attachment.html>

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