[Python-Dev] PEP 553: Built-in debug() (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Tue Sep 5 22:57:15 EDT 2017

On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 06:14:12PM -0700, Barry Warsaw wrote:

I’ve written a PEP proposing the addition of a new built-in function called debug(). Adding this to your code would invoke a debugger through the hook function sys.debughook().

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P.S. This came to me in a nightmare on Sunday night, and the more I explored the idea the more it frightened me. I know exactly what I was dreaming about and the only way to make it all go away was to write this thing up.

Sorry, are we to interpret this as you asking that the PEP be rejected? I can't tell whether you are being poetic and actually think the PEP is a good idea, or whether you have written it to have it rejected and prevent anyone else ever implementing this?

-- Steve

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