Alan Gilfoy wrote: > My programs often have long, detailed loops in them, and would like > to, as I'm executing the loop, view what part of the loop Python is > currently processing. > > Thus, if my program gets stuck in one part of the loop, I would see that. > Thus, if one part of my loop is never triggered, I would see that. > > I could use, within my loop, print 'I am here, at part X of the loop', > but I believe that would be far to clunky to put in every section of > my program's loop(s).
I'm not really sure what you expect this view to look like. I don't know of any tool that will let you dynamically watch a program as it executes. Some alternatives: - A debugger lets you step through the code and see how it behaves. winpdb is a pretty nice GUI-based Python debugger and some Python development tools have built-in debuggers. http://www.digitalpeers.com/pythondebugger/ - If the program is stuck in a loop, pressing control-C will abort the loop and give a stack trace showing you where it was. - The Python profiler will tell you (after the fact) how much time you spend in each function. To see what part of a loop the program is in you would have to break the loop up into functions. http://docs.python.org/lib/profile.html - A code coverage tool will tell you (after the fact) which lines of the program were executed and which were not. (google python code coverage) Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
