This is to announce the availability of a new package: peek. To include powerful debug print statement, all you have to do is: import peek my_string = "hallo" my_dict = dict(a=1, b=2) peek(my_string, my_dict) And you get my_string='hallo', my_dict={'a': 1, 'b': 2} Or, if you add peek.show_line_number = True you get something like #5 ==> my_string='hallo', my_dict={'a': 1, 'b': 2} For those who know icecream: peek goes much further in adding benchmarking, a Pythonic interface, import time customization, better docs, etc. And ... no dependencies whatsoever! For more information, see www.salabim.org/peek