[pypy-dev] type problems

[holger krekel]

Hi Guenter,

[G?nter Jantzen Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 01:40:20PM +0200]
> >
> > Debugging PyPy is ludicrously complicated: I know Python as well as
> > almost anyone.  I know more about PyPy than just a very few people.
> > I'm fairly smart.  And *I* get hopelessly lost in the internals.  What
> > can we do about this?
> 
> Hallo Michael,
> 
> sometimes when interactive debugging is complicated, it can be helpful to
> avoid it and to use some kind of logging mechanism instead.

That may be a good idea.  I am currently hunting down a deeply
nested Exception problem and knowing which frames get created executing
which code helps in understanding what's going on.  Without lots of
print-statements this would be very difficult (not that it really gets
easy :-).

cheers,

    holger