IIRC they indeed insinuate debug() into the builtins. My suggestion is also breakpoint().
On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 7:39 AM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > On Sep 5, 2017, at 20:15, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > > > > Yeah, I like the idea, but I don't like the debug() name -- IIRC there's > a helper named debug() in some codebase I know of that prints its arguments > under certain circumstances. > > > > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 7:58 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > > Maybe breakpoint() would be a better description of what set_trace() > > actually does? > > Originally I was thinking of a keyword like ‘break here’, but once (after > discussion with a few folks at the sprint) I settled on a built-in > function, I was looking for something concise that most directly reflected > the intent. Plus I knew I wanted to mirror the sys.*hooks, so again I > looked for something short. debug() was the best I could come up with! > > breakpoint() could work, although would the hooks then be > sys.breakpointhook() and sys.__breakpointhook__? Too bad we can’t just use > break() :). > > Guido, is that helper you’re thinking of implemented as a built-in? If > you have a suggestion, it would short-circuit the inevitable bikeshedding. > > > This would also avoid confusion with IPython's very > > useful debug magic: > > https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/interactive/ > magics.html#magic-debug > > and which might also be worth stealing for the builtin REPL. > > (Personally I use it way more often than set_trace().) > > Interesting. I’m not an IPython user. Do you think its %debug magic > would benefit from PEP 553? > > (Aside: improving/expanding the stdlib debugger is something else I’d like > to work on, but this is completely independent of PEP 553.) > > Cheers, > -Barry > > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ > guido%40python.org > > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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