apologies - I didn't "reply all" to this. For the record: I made an argument (in reply) about interactive tinkering, and setting "condition", and Guido replied essentially that "if condition: breakpoint()" is just as good for tinkering... a condition parameter to debuggers is not useful, and not as explicit. Yes - agreed (and the `gist` which I tinkered w/ one day - I've now discarded ;-). Thanks, Guido! - Yarko On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
Yarko, there's one thing I don't understand. Maybe you can enlighten me. Why would you prefer
breakpoint(x >= 1000)
over
if x >= 1000: breakpoint()
?
The latter seems unambiguous and requires thinking all around. Is there something in iPython that makes this impractical?
-- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)