Re: [Python-ideas] Debugging: some problems and possible solutions

TITLE: PROBLEM: Debug print() statements cause doctests to fail Adding debug print(...) statements to code can cause doctests to fail. This is because both use sys.stdout as the output stream.

POSSIBLE SOLUTION: Provide and use a special stream for debug output. In other words, something like

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import sys sys.stddebug = sys.stderr debug = lambda *argv, **kwargs: print(*argv, file=sys.stddebug, flush=True, **kwargs)

Note: Need to use current value of sys.stddebug, so can't use functools.partial.