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

Glenn Linderman v+python at g.nevcal.com
Thu Sep 7 19:58:32 EDT 2017

On 9/7/2017 4:19 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:

A somewhat separate point: the name breakpoint() is slightly misleading, which has consequences if it is (improperly) called more than once. While breakpoint() acts as a breakpoint, what it does (at least in the default pdb case) is initialize and start a new debugger, possibly after an import.

So maybe the original debug() call should be renamed debugger() [but with the extra optional parameters discussed], and an additional breakpoint() call could be added that would be much more like hitting a breakpoint in the already initialized debugger.

There seem to be two directions to go here: If breakpoint is called without a prior call to debugger, it should (1) call debugger implicitly with defaults, or (2) be a noop.

I prefer the latter, but either is workable.  Or, one could add all those parameters to every breakpoint() call, which makes (1) more workable, but code more wordy. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20170907/24ebe98e/attachment.html>

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