[Python-Dev] PEP 553: Built-in debug()

[Barry Warsaw]

On Sep 7, 2017, at 13:52, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> pdb.set_trace is a public and stable interface.  IDLE's is private and likely to be initially unstable.  I can imagine that the function that I would want to bind to sys.__breakpoint__ would be a bound method


To be pedantic, you’re not supposed to touch sys.__breakpointhook__ although like sys.__excepthook__ and sys.__displayhook__ they are not enforced to be read-only.

Cheers,
-Barry

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