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Re: debugging in eclipse

From Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: debugging in eclipse
Date 2012-11-15 08:54 -0500
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID <roy-F45720.08540815112012@news.panix.com> (permalink)
References <b45840eb-f429-4287-905a-76d752d4fe04@googlegroups.com> <mailman.3714.1352986928.27098.python-list@python.org>

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In article <mailman.3714.1352986928.27098.python-list@python.org>,
 Dave Angel <d@davea.name> wrote:

> I'd also add a print statement, just to assure yourself that it's running.

My trick to make sure something is running is to add "assert 0".

To be fair, I usually start by adding a print statement, as Dave 
suggests.  If I see the output, I know it ran.  But if I don't see the 
output, there's two possibilities.  Either it didn't run, or it ran but 
something snarfed the output and hid it from my eyes.  That's common in 
test frameworks.  It's also common in background processes where stdout 
goes who-knows-where, and it's anybody's guess how the logging config 
might be borked.

On the other hand, an "assert 0" is pretty much guaranteed to produce 
some visible evidence that it ran.  About the only thing that would stop 
it is if somebody had wrapped the code in a try block which caught 
AssertionError (or Exception).

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debugging in eclipse chip9munk@gmail.com - 2012-11-15 04:29 -0800
  Re: debugging in eclipse Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-11-15 07:49 -0500
    Re: debugging in eclipse chip9munk@gmail.com - 2012-11-15 05:43 -0800
  Re: debugging in eclipse Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-11-15 08:41 -0500
    Re: debugging in eclipse chip9munk@gmail.com - 2012-11-15 05:45 -0800
    Re: debugging in eclipse chip9munk@gmail.com - 2012-11-15 05:45 -0800
    Re: debugging in eclipse Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-11-15 08:54 -0500
      Re: debugging in eclipse aahz@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) - 2012-11-15 07:56 -0800
        Re: debugging in eclipse Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-15 17:05 +0000
          Re: debugging in eclipse alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2012-11-15 17:10 -0800
            Re: debugging in eclipse Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-16 10:30 +0000
  Re: debugging in eclipse "Martin P. Hellwig" <martin.hellwig@gmail.com> - 2012-11-15 05:44 -0800
    Re: debugging in eclipse chip9munk@gmail.com - 2012-11-15 05:46 -0800
      Re: debugging in eclipse Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2012-11-15 14:21 +0000
        Re: debugging in eclipse chip9munk@gmail.com - 2012-11-15 06:28 -0800
  Re: debugging in eclipse Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-11-15 14:43 +0100
    Re: debugging in eclipse chip9munk@gmail.com - 2012-11-15 06:27 -0800

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