Quoting Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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/
I got winpdb downloaded, but when I tried to run the script, it said I needed wxpython. I tried to go to the wxpytohn website, and it's evidently down right now. > > - 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 My loop isn't broken into functions, just a truckload of if statements > > - 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) > Running that Google Search, I seem to be running into a lot of what is, to me, technical gobbeldygook. Can y'all help me choose a good code-coverage tool, and a good tutorial? > Kent Alan ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
