2010/12/31 Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> > Cesare Di Mauro wrote: > > > > >> 2010/12/29 "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> > >> > >> Am 28.12.2010 18:08, schrieb Lukas Lueg: >>> >>>> Also, the load_fast in lne 22 to reference x could be taken out of the >>>> >>> >>> loop as x will always point to the same object.... > >> >>> That's not true; a debugger may change the value of x. >>> >> >> Another example. I can totally remove the variable i, just using the >> stack, so a debugger (or, in general, having the tracing enabled) cannot >> even find something to change about it. >> > > -1 > > Debugging is challenging enough as it is -- why would you want to make it > even more difficult? > > ~Ethan~
With a good test suite you can forget debuggers. In more than 6 years of Python programming, I have used it only two times (to debug an ANTLR generated parser). Cesare
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