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> You'd love to use a full-fledged debugger with breakpoints and watches, but you can't be bothered to set one up right now.

In VSCode: built in. Press the play icon.

In Emacs: M-x realgud:pdb

Is that really more effort than this?

Why invent inferior solutions to solved problems?




Installation for a module like this:

    cd project
    pip install pysnooper  # or pipenv or poetry
And it works.

That's far superior to poking around in the dark trying to make an IDE see my project correctly.

If IDE authors ever figure out how to implement a test button that invokes `python -c "some stuff"` and shows me the results, I'd consider using them.


> If IDE authors ever figure out how to implement a test button that invokes `python -c "some stuff"`

You mean like both Emacs and VSCode already does?




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